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Bunu then goes to Papa. ‘Papa,’ Bunu says, ‘I have a wiggly tooth!’

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Papa gently shakes the tooth with his finger. ‘It is not ready,’ he says.
‘Wait for some time and it will fall out on its own.’

But Bunu does not want to wait. She runs to her room with a long

piece of string. She ties one end of the string around her tooth and the
other around the door knob.

Bunu sits on the floor and waits for someone to come and open the
door. She waits and waits.

Finally Bunu gets tired of waiting. She unties the string from the door
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and sits on her bed with a loud sigh .

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Chunnu, her sister, walks in after some time. ‘This was a terrible idea,’
she says, pointing at the door. ‘Why don’t I pull the string, and your

tooth will come out like that?’

Chunnu picks up the string and gets ready to pull. Bunu closes her eyes

and opens her mouth.

gently : lightly; softly sigh : a slow and noisy breath to show that
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you are sad, unhappy or tired
terrible : (here) very bad
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