Stories i tell my daughter: 1. Dancing Doctor

I have a young daughter who loves to listen to stories. I make up a lot of them. Most of them are not worth repeating but sometimes she loves the stories i tell. I shall write them here so if you have young kids, you can try them too and tell me if your kids loved them too.  

Dancing Doctor

Dr Tom worked in a hospital in a small town. He lived in a house just a few minutes from the hospital. One night, Tom was sleeping in his bed while a witch passed over his house on her broomstick. As the witch was applying make up and riding on the broomstick, some of her magic, which she carried in a small bottle escaped and fell down. And magic bottled in water, if it escapes, has to find nearest human or else it will mix with air and lose its power. This magic found Dr Tom who was sleeping soundly in his bed.

Next morning, Dr Tom woke up and when he got down from the bed, he found out that he was not able to keep still. His feet kept on dancing. He had so much trouble to even put his pants and eat breakfast. He was hopping as he ate his breakfast and most of the tea from his tea cup fell down. Dr Tom did not even have cup of tea in the morning. That made him cross.

Dr Tom tried to ride his bicycle to work. He kept on falling down as his feat got tangled with the bike. Dr Tom had to walk, or rather dance to the hospital. On his way, people kept on asking him why he was dancing. Dr Tom could not say anything as he did not know too.

In the hospital, his patients could not understand why their doctor was dancing. One old women refused to be treated by dancing doctor. She said that it was rude that her doctor danced. Small children who came to Dr Tom joined him in dancing. It made Dr Tom's job very difficult.

Soon all the people in town heard of dancing doctor and came to see Dr Tom. As the hospital got crowded, the chief doctor came to see Dr Tom. He could not find out what was happening and said to Dr Tom, "Go home and rest."

On way back, Dr Tom was accompanied by half the town. He had scores of young children trying to dance with him. It made for a merry spectacle. 

The witch was returning home from her party and saw the party below. She slowed down and soon realized that it was her magic that was causing Dr Tom's dancing. She put a counter spell and Dr Tom stopped dancing. He breathed a sigh of relief and ran home.