Telling Tuan & Tuin story To Mili
Last time during Durga Puja, when I was on a
holiday leave and was at Bhubaneswar with my parents, one of my cousin, his
wife and their 3 yr old, Mili came to see me. Mili is altogether an innocent
packet of joy, a lovely little girl and have a very sharp mind. As we all
elders did our chitchatting, she seemed enjoying one or other object in the
house. If she happens to touch some fragile kind of things, her mom use to give
a occasional warning like............
No Mili No No...............wooo baya.
For almost every things in the house, her mom
started saying wooo Baya (common phrase to frighten any little kids in Odiya
Households). Poor girl didn't find anything to play, break or tear. She missed
all the privileges she is used to at her home. She was then so bored that, she
stared making faces and pinched her papa and said ,"Papa, Lets go
home" many a times.
I felt sorry for the poor little angel and
thought to cheer her up. I asked her,
"Baby want to listen a story?" without
even deciding what story I had in my mind to tell her.
"Yes" she said with a glowing charm in
her face, and like an obedient kid sat on my lap, eagerly looked at me.
"What........?"
"story....."
"oh! yes story. mmmmh ........story
story............hmm...... yes.........."
I remembered the story, which I had heard endless
time, when I was a kid,
" The Tuan Tuin Story"
I began :
"There was man named Tuan and his wife
was Tuin, they lived in a small village near the jungle"
"Jungle, where the tiger lives..........yes
mama told me"
"yes, a big tiger lived there"
One day Tuan said to Tunin, "why don't
you make a cake today, I will fetch woods from jungle"
"What they will do with wood, is cake is
made up of wood? on my birthday Mama made a big cake"
"No, it's a special kind of cake, we will
ask your Mama to make it for you."
"Then what happened?"
As Tuan reached forest he started collecting
dry twigs and woods.
"hmm......then"
Tuan heard a big roar of a tiger ........Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......oooooo
uuuuuuuuuuuu
Mili became curious seeing me mimicking a tiger and looked at me excitingly. Even her parents started getting interested in our conversation.
Mili became curious seeing me mimicking a tiger and looked at me excitingly. Even her parents started getting interested in our conversation.
Tuan fell on the feet of Tiger, " I am Tuan, husband of Tuin, sorry Tiger uncle, please forgive me."
"then...."
ok you are
Tuin's husband.....ok......where is Tuin?
I will come to your house in the night to take the cake.
Tuan
forgot to tell Tuin what had happened in the forest.
"Uncle, you didn't say, why they were making the cake", Mili
asked me in between.
I was out of clue. Her Mother came to my rescue and answered her
"It was Tuan's Happy Birthday, Beta."
"Oh!.....Then what happened?"
Tuin made
a beautiful tasty cake. The cake was so delicious, both of them finished it
completely.
As the
cake was completely finished Tuan remembered, about Tiger uncle.
He became
frightened.
Tuin
asked him what happened.
Tuan
said, "I forgot to tell you that I met Tiger Uncle in the Jungle when I was collecting
woods in forest. He was about to kill me. But I told about you and also that you are cooking cake
in house"
"so"
Tuin said
Tuan Said
"so what.......Tiger uncle told that we have to keep half of the cake for
him, else he will kill and eat both of us"
"is
it?!!" Tuin Said "you should have told me earlier. You Idiot. "
It was by
then evening, and there was no time to make another cake.
"Then"
Tuin told
Tuan, "Lets hide in the big rice drum, the tiger won't find us there"Tuan Said," Good Idea"
Tuan and Tuin hide inside a empty rice drum.
"Then"
"After some time, the tiger came"
I mimicked again. Even Mili tried to imitate and said.
"Then"
The tiger
called, "Tuan............Tuan..............Tuin.............Tuin, where is
my cake?"
Nobody replied.
again
tiger called with anger , ""Tuan............Tuan..............Tuin.............Tuin,
where is my cake?"
Nobody replied.
Tiger
became furious and searched the house. Then he felt some movement in the rice
drum.
"Ok,
I will take this rice drum."
"Then"
Tiger carried
the drum on his head and started walking into the Jungle.
Inside
the drum both Tuan & Tuin became frightened.
Tuin told
Tuan slowly , " Tuan my stomach is filled with Gas, I want to release
it"
Tuan
said, "Do it slowly"
Tuin did
it slowly.
As Tuin
released her gas, Tuan felt to do it also.
He told
Tuin even my stomach is filled with gas, I also want it to release it.
Tuin
said, "Do it slowly"
But as Tuan
released it, It sounded like a bomb blast. "DOOOOOOO.........@#$%#"
Mili
Laughed like anything. We all laughed.
"Then"
The tiger
got frightened, threw the drum away and ran into the deep jungle.
Tuan
& Tuin came back to their house safely.
There was a broad smile in the face of Mili.
And that was priceless prize for me, for telling story to a kid.
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