The story of a needle by ALOE Author:Charlotte Maria Tucker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CONVERSATION IN A WORKBOX. " Well, what do you think of your new life ?" said the Scissors, as soon as we were left quietly in the box. Perhap... more »s I had better pause for a moment to describe my new companion, before I record our conversation. The pair of Scissors, with which I had now to make acquaintance, had rather an old- fashioned air. One end was rounded, the other had been sharp, but a little piece had been broken off the point. I fancied that I detected on one of the handles something reddish, like a little speck of rust, and the brightness of the whole article was dimmed. This was doubtless a mark of antiquity, and it was in the patronizing manner of one who was aware of her own superiority, that Mrs. Scissors repeated her question, " Pray, what do you think of your new life?" " I have hardly had time to judge," was my reply; " but I am rather hurt at the way in which that little boy laid the whole blame of his own fault upon me." " Oh! that is what you must always expect," laughed the Scissors; " a bad shearer never has good shears. I've been these ten years in the family, and I've always found it the same. When Miss Lily took it into her head to imitate the hair-dresser, and practise upon Eddy's flaxen poll, when I glanced aside, and snipped his little ear, whose fault was that but ' the stupid Scissors !' And when I was seized upon to open a nailed box, whose contents the young lady was impatient to see, whose fault was it when my poor point suddenly snapped? why, ' the good-for-nothing Scissors,' to be sure." " I hope that I shall not be treated in such a way," said I, rather alarmed at her words; " it would be too bad, after the trouble that has been taken to form me, after having had to pass to perfection through so many hands, to be snapp...« less