Asatru Folk Assembly - Uncle Wiggily's Toothache (Academy Storytime)

00:00:00.000 okay so like i said i'm reading a book of the first story from a book called uncle wiggily's

00:00:26.880 storybook and uh i will start by adding that this was written a very long time ago so sometimes

00:00:37.840 there are going to be some some story or some words or some ideas in the in the story that

00:00:43.680 are a little odd because they're they're old-fashioned but you'll see so uncle wiggily's

00:00:50.080 storybook story one uncle wiggily's toothache once upon a time there was a boy who had a toothache

00:01:00.320 it was not a very large tooth that paid him and really it was quite surprising how such a very

00:01:05.280 large ache got into such a small tooth at the very least at least that is what the boy thought

00:01:13.360 but i'm not going to the dentist to let him pull it cried the boy holding his hand over his mouth

00:01:18.720 And I'm not going to let anybody in this house pull it either.

00:01:22.780 So there.

00:01:24.460 He rammed himself in a corner. 1.00

00:01:27.480 Girls aren't that way when they have a toothache. 0.87

00:01:30.040 Only boys.

00:01:31.760 Perhaps the tooth will not need pulling, said Mother, as she looked at the boy and saw how much pain he had.

00:01:37.720 That's so, exclaimed Grandma, who was always trying to think of some way in which to help the little boy.

00:01:43.840 Maybe the dentist can make a little hole in your tooth, Sonny, and fill the hole with cement,

00:01:48.220 as the man filled the hole in our sidewalk, and then all your pain will stop.

00:01:53.320 No, no, I'm not going to the dentist. I'm not going, I tell you, cried Sonny.

00:01:57.720 And I think he stomped his foot on the floor, at least a little bit.

00:02:01.960 It may have been that he saw a tack sticking up and wanted to hammer it down with his shoe,

00:02:05.940 but I'm afraid to say it was a stomp of his foot, and afterwards that little boy was sorry.

00:02:11.920 But anyhow, his tooth kept on aching, and it was the kind called jumping, for it was worse at one time than another.

00:02:21.200 Sometimes the boy thought the pain jumped from one side of his tongue to the other side, and again it seemed that it leapt away from the roof of his mouth.

00:02:31.240 Up, away to the roof of his mouth.

00:02:33.640 The toothache even seemed to turn somersaults and peppersaults, and once it appeared to jump over backwards.

00:02:39.040 But it never completely jumped away, which is what the boy wished it would do.

00:02:44.720 You'd better let me take you to the dentist, said his mother.

00:02:48.400 He'll either fix the tooth so it won't ache anymore, or he'll take it out so a new tooth will grow in.

00:02:54.060 And really, the pain the dentist may cause will only be a little, and it will all be over a moment, while your tooth may ache all night.

00:03:01.280 No, I'm not going to the dentist. I'm not going, cried Sonny Boy.

00:03:04.980 and then he again acted just as if there were an attack in the carpet that needed hammering down

00:03:12.200 with his foot. Now it was about this time that Uncle Wiggly Longears, the bunny rabbit gentleman,

00:03:17.460 was hopping from the hollow stump bungalow in the woods to go look for an adventure.

00:03:22.920 But as yet Uncle Wiggly knew nothing about the boy with the toothache. That came a little bit later.

00:03:28.920 Are you going to be gone long? asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper of the 1.00

00:03:34.000 bunny gentleman? Only just long enough to have a nice adventure, answered Mr. Longears, and away 1.00

00:03:39.420 he hopped on his red, white, and blue striped rheumatism crutch, with his pink twinkling nose 0.76

00:03:45.340 held in front of him like the headlight on a choo-choo train. Now, as it happened, Uncle Wiggly's 0.85

00:03:51.020 hollow stump bungalow was not far from the house where the toothache boy lived, though the boy had

00:03:56.140 never seen the rabbit's home. He had often wandered in the woods, almost in front of the bunny's

00:04:01.100 bungalow but not but not having the proper sort of eyes the boys had never seen uncle wiggly

00:04:08.460 it needs very sharp eyes to see the creature of the woods in the fields and to find the little

00:04:12.860 houses in which they live at any rate the boy had never noticed uncle wiggly through the bunny

00:04:18.540 though the bunny gentleman had often seen the boy many a time when you go through the woods

00:04:23.260 the animal folk look out to see you when you never even know they are there and pretty soon

00:04:29.500 uncle wiggly hopped right past the house where the toothache boy lived and just then for about

00:04:34.940 the tenth time mother was saying you had better let me take you to the dentist and have that

00:04:39.900 toothache stop sonny no no i don't want to i i'm uh uh i guess it will stop itself the boy said

00:04:48.300 hopeful like uncle wiggly hiding in the bushes in front of the boy's house sat up on his hind legs

00:04:53.660 and twinkled his pink nose by a strange and wonderful new power which he had the bunny

00:05:00.060 gentleman could hear and understand boy and girl talk though he could not speak it himself

00:05:05.020 so it was no trouble at all for uncle wiggly to know that the boy what the boy was saying

00:05:10.060 he's afraid that's what the boy is said the bunny uncle to himself leaning on his red white and

00:05:14.540 blue striped crutch he's afraid to go to the dentist and have the tooth pulled or filled

00:05:22.780 now this is this now that's very silly of him for the dentist will not hurt him much and will stop

00:05:28.940 the ache soon i wonder how i can make that boy believe this his mother and grandmother can't

00:05:34.620 seem to for mr long ears heard mother and grandmother trying to get the toothache boy to

00:05:39.900 let them take him to the dentist but the boy only shook his head and made believe hammer tacks in

00:05:45.260 the carpet with his foot then he held his hand over his mouth but all the while the ache kept

00:05:50.700 aching achier and achier and jumping leaping tumbling twisting turning and flip-flopping

00:05:56.300 almost like a clown at the circus no no i'm not going to the dentist cried the boy then uncle

00:06:02.940 wiggily had an idea he could look through the window of the house to see the boy in front of

00:06:08.140 the window was a grassy place near the edge of the wood and close by was an old stump shaped almost

00:06:14.460 like an easy chair in a dentist's office i know what i'll do said uncle wiggly i'll make believe

00:06:20.380 i have the toothache i'll get i'll go get dr possum and i'll sit down in this old stump chair

00:06:26.460 then i'll tell dr possum to make believe pull out one of my teeth

00:06:30.700 i suppose if nurse jane were here she might ask what good that would do thought uncle wiggly

00:06:36.140 but i think it will do a lot of good if that boy sees me a rabbit gentleman having a tooth pulled

00:06:41.660 which is what he will think he sees it may make him brave enough to go to the dentist

00:06:46.380 i'll try this away hopped uncle wiggly to dr possum's office what's the matter rheumatism

00:06:53.580 again asked the animal doctor no but i want you to come over and pull a tooth for me said

00:06:58.700 uncle wiggly blinking one eye and twinkling his pink nose surreptitious like pull a tooth

00:07:04.700 why your teeth are all right cried dr possum it's to give a little lesson to a boy whispered

00:07:10.940 the bunny and then dr possum blinked one eye in an understanding fashion a little later uncle

00:07:17.260 wiggly sat himself down on the old stump that looked like a chair and dr possum stood over him

00:07:22.940 open your mouth and show me which tooth it is that hurts said dr possum just like a dentist

00:07:28.380 all right answered uncle wiggly and from the corner of his left eye the bunny gentleman could

00:07:32.300 see that the toothache boy at the window was looking out the boy saw the rabbit and dr possum

00:07:37.820 at the stump and he and he saw dr mr long years open his mouth and point with his paw to a tooth

00:07:46.540 oh mother cried the boy very much excited look there's a funny rabbit all dressed up and a tall

00:07:52.060 silk hat having his tooth pulled grandma look well i do declare murmured the old lady isn't

00:07:57.980 that perfectly wonderful i didn't know that animals ever had the toothache well i suppose

00:08:03.500 they do once in a while said the toothache boy the toothache boy's mother but see how brave that

00:08:09.980 rabbit gentleman is not to mind having the animal tend to stop his ache just fancy neither grandma

00:08:17.340 nor mother said anything to sunny boy all three of them just stood at the window and watched uncle

00:08:22.780 wiggly and dr possum and as they looked dr possum put a little shiny thing like a button hook in the

00:08:29.500 the buddy gentleman's mouth he gave a sudden little pull and a moment later held up something

00:08:34.860 which sparkled in the sun it was only a bit of glass which uncle wiggly had held in his paw

00:08:39.500 ready for this part in the little play but it looked like a tooth well i declare laughed grandma

00:08:45.020 the buddy had his tooth pulled and he doesn't seem to mind at all added mother surely enough

00:08:50.140 uncle wiggly hopped off the make-believe dentist stump with his red white and blue striped rheumatism

00:08:55.420 crutch i began to dance a little jiggedy jig with dr possum this dance is to show that it doesn't

00:09:01.580 hurt even to have a tooth pulled much less to have one filled said the bunny i understand laughed

00:09:06.460 dr possum and as he and uncle wiggly danced they look looked out of the corner of their eyes and

00:09:11.500 saw the toothache voice standing at the window watching them well i never in all my born days

00:09:16.300 saw a sight like that exclaimed grandma nor i said mother isn't it wonderful sonny boy took his hand

00:09:22.300 away from his mouth i i guess mother he said as he saw uncle wiggly jump over his crutch in a most

00:09:28.220 happy fashion i guess i'll go to the dentist and have him stop my toothache hooray softly cried

00:09:34.220 uncle wiggly who heard what the boy said this is just what i wanted to happen dr possum our little

00:09:39.740 lesson is over now we may go away hopped the bunny to tell nurse jane about this strange adventure

00:09:45.260 and dr possum with his bag of powders and pills on his tail where he always carried it shuffled

00:09:50.860 back to his office sunny boy went to the dentist and soon his tooth was fixed so it would not ache

00:09:56.780 again it hardly felt at all what the dentist did to him i i didn't know how easy it was till i saw

00:10:02.940 the rabbit have his tooth pulled to the boy to the dentist said the dentist non-committal like

00:10:08.780 some rabbits are very funny and if the puppy dog doesn't waggle his tail so hard that he knocks

00:10:14.460 over the milk bottle when it's trying to slide down the doormat i shall have the pleasure next

00:10:19.180 of telling you the story of Uncle Wiggly and the Freckled Girl. The end.

00:10:49.180 Thank you.

Asatru Folk Assembly - December 09, 2023

Uncle Wiggily's Toothache (Academy Storytime)

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