Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-21
LUCK MAY LIE INA PIN.
A Story Written for My Young American
Friends.

BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON.
From the Riverside Magazine.
Now I am going to tell story
about Luck. All of US are acquaint-
ed with Luck there are those that
see her all the time, some only at
certain times of the year, others on
ly one single day-yes, there are peo-
pie that only see Luck once in their
lifetime but all of us do see her.
/ suppose l 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 cas-
tie, or in workingman's nicely or
dered room but then it may happen
instead, in an open market-place,
where the cold wind blows. But
what every one of you does not,
know, and yet is really true, is that
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 comfort.
Luck once was placed in an apple Z;
that was for man whose name was
Newton. The apple tell and thus he
found his Luck. Ifyou do not know
that story, ask some one to tell it to
you. We have another story to tell
Ia story about pear.
There once lived a poor man, who
was born poor, and had grown up
poor, and was poor when he MARI
ed. 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,
81 shall never find my Luck f"
said he.
Now this is a true story, which
really happened. l could 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 a
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 lump of clay, and so it was
. not at all wonderful T. 1T a big branch
should have been broken from the
big pear tree. The branch was
taken into the workshop, and the
man turned out of it, just for fun, a
big pear, and another big pear, then
smaller pear, and then several
very small pears.
"The tree shall bear pears once, al
, 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 UNI
, brella would turn over, and some
times liz would break but the man
quickly mended it again-that was
F his trade. With the button and
string that kept the umbrella to
gether, it went worse it would
break too soon, just as one was fold
, ing the umbrella up.
One day, when the button had bro
ken 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.
Il cannot find the button" said
, the man, ''but this Ii tile thing will
!
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 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 thousand others, 70 America.
|. They have a quick understanding
there of what is of use. The little
pear was 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 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.
''In that pear tree my Luck was
placed" said the man and soon
after he had great workshop, with
plenty of women and boys to help
him. Now he was all the time in
SoOd ollCh uSSo W say ,
Luck may lie in pin.n
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-oEe given by
our Lord. L have had one of them
and whenever | come to America
the land of the New World, which
is so far off yet so near me, | shall al
ways carry that pin with me. | can
send my greeting over in a few min
utes; the ocean rolls over to it's
shores; there the wind blows; amy day
L can be there when my stories are
read, and perhaps see the glittering
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. / am in the very
room with my friends-and yet L
am invisible. / have the white pin
in my mouth.
/ Yes, Luck may lie in pin.
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