Teeth

One day Tom’s tooth came out. It was one of his milk teeth.

“You’ll have to put it under your pillow for the tooth fairy,” said his mother. “She might leave you a pound!”

“A pound?” thought Tom. “That’s not very much! I can’t get a bucket of sweets with that.”

Tom was quite a greedy boy.

After staring at his tooth awhile, an idea came to him.

“What if I write a letter to her saying that I’ve had all my teeth out, but have lost them all except one?” he thought to himself. “That will be worth almost an entire sweet shop, I bet!”

Tom felt very pleased with himself, and started composing the letter to the tooth fairy. It took him awhile, and there was lots of crossing out, but at last he was satisfied.

When he went to bed he did not tell his parents what he had done. He put the note, his tooth, and a large bag under his pillow in anticipation of all the money that was going to be left for the teeth. Then he went to sleep.

In the middle of the night Cowslip, his tooth fairy, magically flew in through the window. She settled on the side of his pillow and reached underneath and pulled out the lone tooth. She also pulled out the note.

Cowslip read the note.

Cowslip was a little short sighted. She read the note again, and looked at the solitary tooth in her hand.

“He wants me to take all his teeth?” she said, amazed. Then, shrugging her tiny shoulders she covered Tom with fairy dust, and got out her tools.

First, she yanked out all the loose teeth with a pair of pliers. It was not easy. She had to brace her legs against his nose for leverage.

Then she got her little fairy sledgehammer.

Over and over she swung, smashing the teeth out of Tom’s mouth.

She worked up quite a sweat

After she had hammered out all she could, she got out her power drill. Carefully she drilled out all the roots, until there were no teeth left in Tom’s mouth at all.

Sadly, because all the teeth were damaged, they did not have much re-sale value, so cowslip could not leave him any money.

Whistling a merry tune Cowslip flew out of the room and on to fairy land.

In the morning Tom’s mother came into to wake him up. When he yawned and gave her a big wide smile Tom’s mother screamed and screamed.