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Show Master Pin and Lady Needle. A pin and a needle, beinjr neighbors in a work-basket, and both being idle folk, began to quarrel, as idle folk, are apt to do. 'I should like to know," said the pin, "what you are pood for, and how you expect ex-pect to get through the world without a head." "What is the use of your head," replied the needle, rather sharply, "if you have no eye?" "What is the use of an eye," said the pin, "if there is always something in it?" "I am more active, and can go through more work than you can," said the needle. "Yes, but you will not live long, because you have always a stitch in the side," said the pin. "You are a poor, crooked creature," said the needle. "And you are so proud that you can't bend without breaking your back." "I'll pull your head off if you insult me again." "I'll pull your eye out if you touch me; remember, your life hangs ou a single thread," said the pin. "While they were thus conversing a little girl entered, and, undertaking to sew, bhe very soon broke off the needle at the eye. She then tied the thread around the neck of the piu and attempted to sew with it, but pulled its head off and threw it into the dirt by the side of the broken needle. "Well, here we are," said the needle. "We have nothing to tight about now," said the pin. "It seems misfortune has brought us to our senses." "A pity we had not come to them sooner," said the needle. "How much we resemble human beings, who quarrel about their blessings till they lose them, and never iind out they are brothers till they lie down in the dust together, as we do." |