Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-23
LUCK May LIE IN A PIN.

the community, anu prosperous III
your pecuniary affairs.
LUCK MAY LIE IN A PIN.
ny HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
LII
Now l am going to tell a storyabout
! Luck. All Of US are acquainted with
Luck ;sIhere are those that see her all
the time, some only at certain times
of the year, others only one single day
yes, there are eve people that only
see Luck once in their their lifetime;
but all Of US do see her.
I suppose I need not tell o that
when our Lord sends a little CHILD
here, lie lays it ia 4 mothers lap;
this may happen ia u rich mans cas-
tie, or in 4 workingman's nicely
ordered room; but then it may hap
pen instead in an open market-place.
where the cold wind blows. But
what mol every one of you does know,
and yet IS really true, IS that our
Lord, when he places a child here,
also sends along with 1t its good luck.
Nv AA1AA1a 1lIN tNN VI = Il AANN Il DA4AEA lAtatA
by, but is hidden in some spot on our
globe, where We look for it least; vet
it is always found ut last. and that Is
n comfort.
Luck once vas placed in an apple;
that was for 4 man whose name was
Newton. The apple fell, and then he
found his Luck. Ii you do not know
that story, ask some one to tell it to
YOU. We have ! story 10 tell-a story
abOut q 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 1--we from hand to
mouth.
= 1 shall never find nay Luck said
Now this is a true story, which
really happened. I could tell the
name of the country, and the place
where the man lived, but that is of no
consequences. The red and sour noun
tain-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 a pear, and yet
there luck was placed in an invisible
pear.
. One night the wind blew terribly.
In Avize, men said the great Dillig
bOWIder was lifted up from the side of
the road, and thrown down like a
lump Of clay, and so it was not at all
wonderful that a big branch should
have been broken from the pear tree.
The branch was taken into the work
shop, and the man turned out of it,
just for fun; a big pear, and another big
pear, then a smaller pear, and then
several very small pears.
1.-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
necessities 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 UNI
brella would turn over, and some
times il would break; but the man
qu8kly mended il again-that was in
his trade. With the button and string
that kept the umbrella together, it
went worse, it would always break
too soon, just as n was folding the
umbrella 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. Z" but this little thing will
answer He pulled a small cord
through it, and the little pear filled
the place of the broken button beau
tifully: it was exactly right, and
formed the best of fasteners. The
next time that he had to send UNI
brella-handles and rings tOthe 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
q thousand others to America.
They have a quick understanding
there of what is of use. Thelittle
pear was soon found to hold best, and
the umbrella 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; wood
en- 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.
ain that pear tree my luck was
plaeed,1' said the man; and soon after
he had a great workshop, with plenty
of women and boys to help him, and
often used to say, 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 ii
YOU put a white pin in your mouth,
YOU will be invisible; but it must be
the right sort of a pin-one given by
our Lord. Ihave had one of them;
and whenever l e0meto America, the
land of the New World, which is so
far off, yet SO near to me, shall
always carry that pin with me. /
can send my greeting over in a few
minutes; the ocean rolls over 10 us
shores, there the wind blows; any
day / can be there when my stories
are read, and perhaps e the glitter
ing 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. I am in
the very room with my friends, and
vet Lam invisible. / have the white
pin in my mouth. s.
Yes, luck may lie int pin. g.ts.
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