APRIL 21: The Pine Needles
“I must thread my needle before I begin my work,” said a little girl as she sat under a big pine tree, with another little girl.
“What’s that I hear?” asked one of the pine needles. “She speaks about threading her needle? Am I her needle, or are you her needle, or who in the world is her needle? And what is thread?”
The poor needles were very nervous. And the other little girl spoke next: “I like to knit better than I do to sew because then I can use four needles.”
“Oh, dear, oh dear,” said the pine needles. “There’s a child who needs four needles. Do you suppose she threads us too?”
They watched for a long time, trying to move away from the children so they would not be used. They whispered to the pine tree saying:
“Blow about and move us away,Sway, swing, swing and sway.For we’ve just this minute heard it said,That into needles they will put thread.”
“Blow about and move us away,Sway, swing, swing and sway.For we’ve just this minute heard it said,That into needles they will put thread.”
“Blow about and move us away,Sway, swing, swing and sway.For we’ve just this minute heard it said,That into needles they will put thread.”
“Blow about and move us away,
Sway, swing, swing and sway.
For we’ve just this minute heard it said,
That into needles they will put thread.”
And the pine tree whispered to the breeze:
“Blow, blow, make me sway,So I can move the needles away.Please, Mr. Wind, would you mindDoing this act so very kind?”
“Blow, blow, make me sway,So I can move the needles away.Please, Mr. Wind, would you mindDoing this act so very kind?”
“Blow, blow, make me sway,So I can move the needles away.Please, Mr. Wind, would you mindDoing this act so very kind?”
“Blow, blow, make me sway,
So I can move the needles away.
Please, Mr. Wind, would you mind
Doing this act so very kind?”
So the wind blew the pine tree and the pine tree’s branches swayed and blew about the little pine needles. But no sooner had all this happened than they saw that the children had other things called needles. They hadn’t wanted pine needles at all!