The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-02
Luck May Lie in a Pima Story Written
for my Young American Friends.

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for my Young American Friends.
Hans Christian Andersen, in the Riverside Mag
ozine, tells the following:
Now I am going to tell a story about Luck.
All of us are acquainted with Luck; there are
those that see her all the time, some only at GER
tain tunes of the year, others only one single
day-yes, there are people who only see Luck
once in their lifetime but all of US do see her.
I suppose 1 need not tell you that when our
Lord sends a little child here, He lays it in it's
mothers lap this may happen in a rich mans
castle, or in a workingman's nicely ordered room ;
but then it may happen instead in an open mar
ket-place, where the cold wind blows. But what
every one of you does not know, and yet is already
true, is that our Lord, when he places a child
here, also sends along with it good Luck, which,
however, is never placed near by, but is hidden
in some spot on our globe, where we look for it
least and it is always found at last, and that is
a comfort.
Luck once was placed in an apple that was
for a man whose name was Newton. The apple
fell, and thus he found his Luck. If you do not
know that story, ask some one to tell it to you.
We have another story to tell-a story about a
pear.
There once lived a poor man, who was born
poor, and had grown up poor, and was poor
when he married. He was a turner by trade,
and used to turn umbrella handles and umbrella
rings, but he only earned enough money by this
to live from hand to mouth.
Z" shall never find my Luck, - said he.
Now this is : true story, which really hap
pened. 1 coulA tell the name of the country and
the place where the man lived, but that is of no
consequence. The red and sour mountain-ash
berries blossomed and ripened around his house
and in his garden as if they were the choicest
fruit, and in the garden stood also a pear tree,
but it never had borne pear, and yet there Luck
was placed. in an invisible pear.
One night the wind blew terribly. In Ayize
men said the great Dillig boulder had been lifted
from the side of the road, and thrown down like
a lump of clay, and so it was not at all wonder
full that a big branch should have been broken
from the pear tree. The branch was taken into
the workshop, and the man turned out of it, just
for fun, a big pear, and then another big pear,
then a smaller pear, and then several very small
pears.
60 The tree shall bear pears once, at least he
said, and gave them to the children to play with.
There are some things that are necessaries in
life, and among these, most certainly in wet
countries, are umbrellas. Now the whole family
had only one for general use. When the wind
blew very hard, the umbrella would turn over,
and sometimes it would break but the man
quickly mended it again-that was his trade.
With the button and string that kept the UNI
brella together, it went worse; it would always
break too soon, just as one was folding the UNI
brella UP.
One day, when the button had broken again,
and the man hunted in vain for it on the floor,
he happened to get hold of one of the smallest
pears which he had turned, and had given to the
children to play with.
81 cannot find the BUTTON" said the man,
&c but this little thing viii answer" He pulled
a small cord through it, and the little pear filled
the place of the broken button beautifully; it
was exactly right, and formed the best of fasten-
ers. The next time he had to send umbrella
handles and rings to the capital, he added to the
number a few of the small wooden pears which
he had turned. They were fastened to a few
new umbrellas, which were sent with a thousand
! others to America. They have a quick under
standing there of what is of use. The little
pear was soon found to hold best, and the UNI
brella merchant gave orders that all the umbrellas
to be sent to HIM after that should be fastened
with the little wooden pear. Large orders were
to be supplied, thousands of pears to be made
wooden pears on all umbrellas, and our man was
kept busy at work. He turned and turned the
whole pear tree was used for little wooden pears,
which brought shillings that grew into dollars.
sc In that pear tree my Luck was placed said
the man and soon after he had a great work.
shop, with plenty of women and boys to help
him. Now he was all the time in good humOr,
| and often used to say, &c Luck may lie in a PIN
So also says he who tells the story, and you
should know that it is true, and is a proverb in
Denmark, that if you put a white pin IN your
mouth YOU will be invisible but it must be the
right sort of pin-one given by the Lord. Il
have had one of them and whenever l come to
America, the land of the New World, which is
so far off, yet SO near me, L shall always carry
that pin with me. 1 can send my greeting over
i'm a few minutes the ocean rolls over to Its
shores, there the wind blows; any day 1 can be
there when my stories are read. and perhaps see
the g~littering gold receive the ringing gold-the
gold that is best of all, which shines in the eyes
of children and comes ringing from their lips,
and the lips of their parents. L am in the very
room with my friends-and yet 1 am invisible.
1 have the white pin in my mouth.
Yes, Luck may lie in a pin.