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"A top? Stones?" Unnikuttan laughed. "This is your treasure?"

"Appuppa, tomorrow, can we draw a new map and look for the 'hidden well' you talked about?" he asked, his eyes shining.

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Inside, Unnikuttan expected gold coins or jewels. Instead, he found a rusty spinning top ( pambaram ), a set of painted stones, and a thin, hand-drawn map. muthu malayalam magazine

Appuppan didn’t answer. He took the top, wound the string expertly, and threw it to the ground. Whirrrrr. The top spun like a blue blur. Then, he picked up three flat stones and skipped them across the small pond near the fence. Plip. Plip. Plip. The ripples spread wide.

"Your turn," Appuppan said.

"Ammede! What will I do now?" Unnikuttan whined, lying flat on the mat. "A top

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For two hours, the grandfather and grandson played under the mango tree. Appuppan taught him how to balance the top with a flick of the wrist. He taught him the secret angle to throw the stones so they would dance on water.

Grumbling, Unnikuttan followed his grandfather into the backyard. Under the old mango tree, Appuppan pointed to a small, dusty wooden box hidden behind a bush. Published in the spirit of Muthu magazine –

That night, Muthassi asked, "Unni, the TV is working now. Aren't you going to watch?"

Appuppan closed his newspaper and chuckled. "Come, Unni. I want to show you something."

"This was your great-grandfather’s," Appuppan said.