The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-08-17

Once upon time new pin stood in
a cushion. with ever so many other pins
.sThis il better than that green pa
per was" said the pin 70 himself
s.What a nice place il IS, 10 be sure
Here am. right in the middle Of this
red cushion, and the worstcd is all
around my foot on purpose to keep it
warm. II Is all because l look so well,
suppose. What shall name myself?
Let me think
Pins always name themselves. but the
last name l. the same every time-Pin.
I'm call myself shiny guess.
Shiny Pint That sounds well, How
straight ! am; and, dear me, what
crooked fellows all the rest ofthem are,n
and Shiny drew himself up SO proudly,
that he almost fell over
.Hullo, Mr.. shiny
Shiny never stirred, but stood in dig
nii1d silence.
"Oh know you," said the voice
again. '.You needn put on airs. We
stuck side by side on that green paper
We rode in the cars, in an old lady's
pocket, and heard her tell somebody
how her last husband wouldn't die as
long al he lay on partridge feather
pillow, and when they laid him on hens
feathers he went of just as easy.
Don't YOU remember? SAY"
Shiny turned around, and saw dread
fully dciormed pin. II was bent till it
looked little like a cork-scrcw, and its
head was fiat.
81 don't wonder YOU don't know
me- said the crooked pin, whose name
was Mashed. \. don't look n fresh as
You do, but we are 81 the same age"
but what on earth has happened TO
youP" asked Shiny.
''Well. Ill tell You. | stuck in that
paper, and they had reached our row,
which was the second from the middle
| have forgotten which side and one
day little girl came to the woman that
the old lady bought Us for. and asked
for pin, and the mother told her 10
take one from the paper. SO the child
came and took me right out Of the mid
die Of the row, which wasn't right; she
should have taken the end one. for then
the row would look heater. Well. that
child took me out Of doors. aud after
looking to see If her mother would
know where she was going, she slipped
through gate, and there before us lay
two long straight things. didn' I
know what thoy We're then. but | do
now. II was railroad track. She
laid me down on one Of those rails.
and | thought il was a
very good place, although lay on
my face. But it was warm, and there
was fresh air all around me, which was
more than could say for that green pa
per. was thinking how pleasant il
would Dc II was only turned over. when
ali ~ once heard dreadful noise, and
then came an awful weight, and il came
again and again, and there was with
my head rs Hat as knifc-blade. Then
'he little girl came running up and said.
'Oh, now you're mashedt' (Which was
new word to me. SO I've always kept
Hfor a nancy and she took me home
ana used me for brcast-pin for her
uoil. She bent me every time she stuck
me IN, and yesterday she lost me. and
her mother picked me up and asked how
me came TO have such pin, and when
she found out she said the little girl
shouldn't have me for week, 10 punish
ner for going beyond the gate when she
hAd been told not to. So that il how
came 70 be here
expect to come 20 a better use than
70 De mere ornament for n little girls
uoii, said Shiny. scornfully. ~ In
'eni 70 do some good i'll the world
me pins were interrupted Just then
" the mother of the little girl, who
zane 20 the cushion and took Shiny and
used him 70 pin down her sewing. That
Mas doing good, but Shiny wasn't salts
"eu with such small work.
Don't You fret called Mashed
rom the cushion. .As long AZ YOU are
Alalght, there j. work ahead. \
" little while the lady took the pin
w and stuck II on the front Of her dress,
~ PVT her work away and went into
The kitchen.
p will make the biscuit for tea,
bridget" she said. "The minister is
oonlng, and ! want them extra nice.
70 she sifted some flour and put all
manner Of things ia il, Shiny thought.
~ Kept drawing himself up 10 see all
~ could and suddenly he fell down in
y, .ne dough, but the lady didn't see II and
NJ pm was covered up.
Oh, now | shall not zee what the
muster -" thought Shiny
W ailtlc while the dough began 10
s'ow not, and il kept getting hotter and