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The Bear's Toothache by David McPhail
Adapted for Readers Theater by Linda Hoyt

Narrator 1: One night something came to my window.

Narrator 2: It was a bear with a toothache.

Narrator 3: I went to window and asked him in.

Narrator 1: I looked at his teeth.

Narrator 2: When I saw the one that ached,I tried to pull it out.

Narrator 3: It wouldn't come out.

Narrator 1: "Maybe some meat will help it come out,"

Narrator 2: said the bear.

Narrator 3: So we went down to the kitchen where the bear ate some meat.

Narrator 1: The bear ate and ate.

Narrator 2: But the tooth wouldn't come out.

Narrator 3: When we got back to my room, I tried to pull the tooth.

Narrator 1: I tried to hit it with my pillow.

Narrator 2: But the bear ducked and I hit the lamp.

Narrator 3: It fell.

Narrator 1: My dad woke up and came to my room.

Narrator 2: "What did you do to the lamp?

Narrator 3: He asked.

Narrator 1: "It fell,"

Narrator 2: I said.

Narrator 3: "Oh,"

Narrator 2: he said.

Narrator 1: and he went back to bed.

Narrator 2: I tried one more way to pull the tooth.

Narrator 3: I put my rope on the s tooth and on the bed.

Narrator 1: Then the bear went to the window.

Narrator 2: He jumped out.

Narrator 3: And just as he hit the ground,

Narrator 1: the tooth came out!

Narrator 2: The bear was so glad that he gave me the tooth.

Narrator 3: I put it under my pillow!