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All the people of the bustee gathered under a big mango tree. They said to

one another, "We don’t know who we are, we don’t know our names. Let’s

give ourselves names.’’ So
they named each other

some names.

Then also decided who

would live in which house.
Even the children came

together under a huge

mango tree. They wanted
to play. But they did not know what to play and how to play.

Narayan and Grandma saw all this through the window of their house.

Narayan went to the group of children and said that he could teach them
how to play tops. He played the tops several times to teach them. He worked

on his spin and soon there was top after top spinning on his palms! Small

children kept following Narayan. They would keep calling him for help. He
was delighted. Other children learnt cricket and football from Narayan.

A few days passed. Late in the night, when Narayan and the whole bustee

were fast asleep, grandma held the top close to her lips and said something.
In the midnight she spun, the top on the cricket ground, she spun it on

the football ground and she also spun it on all the houses and trees of the

bustee.

The next day, all the people woke up with a fresh memory. They remembered
their names, their houses, their friends and games.

They all had a meeting under an enormous Mango tree. Everyone said that

they would continue to live as they were living.

Days and months passed. The top is still spinning in a far-away bustee where
all the children are playing happily.

gathered — to collect in a group; delighted — very happy or pleased; enormous
— big; passed — to move other side of somebody/something.

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