A QUARREL BETWEEN A PIN AND A NEEDLE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 12 September 1891, Page 374

A QUARREL BETWEEN A PIN AND A NEEDLE.

A PIN and a needle, neighbours in a work contract, both being idle, began to quarrel as idle folks are apt to do. ‘ 1 should like to know,’ said the pin to the needle, ‘what you are good for, and how can you expect to get through the world without a head ?’ ‘ What’s the use of your head,’ replied the pin rather sharply, ‘ if you have no eye ?’ ‘ What s the use of an eye,’ said the pin ‘ if there’s always something in it ?’ ‘ I am more active, and go through more work than you can,’ said the needle. ‘ Because you always have a stitch at your side,’ said the pin. ‘ You are a crooked creature,’ said the needle. ‘ And you are so proud that you can’t bend without breaking your back,’ said the pin. ‘ 111 pull your head off if you insult me again,’ said the needle. ‘ And I’ll pull your eye out if you touch my head,’ said the pin. While they were thus contending, a little girl entered, and undertaking to sew, she very soon broke off the needle at the eye. Then she tied the thread around the neck of the pin, and in trying to pull the thread through the cloth, she soon pulled its head off, and then thiew it into the dirt, by the side of the broken needle. ‘ Well, here we are,’ said the needle. ‘ We have nothing to fight about now,’ said the pin. ‘ Misfortune seems to have brought us to our senses,’ said the needle ; ‘ how much we resemble human beings, who quarrel about their blessings till they lose them, and never find out that they are brothers till they lie down in the dust together. ’