'They are much too long for needles,' said Dora, softly, to her uncle;
but one of the workmen heard her, and said:
7. 'So they are! Each bit is going to be two needles. The two ends are
to be the points, and the heads lie in the middle of the wire.'
8. But no heads were to be seen yet. And the wire was not even straight,
for it had long been rolled up in a coil. As the machine went on
chopping, and the wire-strips dropped, a man picked them up and put them
on a shelf in a sort of oven.
9. There they were kept till they were red-hot, and then they were soft
enough to be made straight.
NEEDLES.
PART 2.
[Illustration: 'Now you see the points of the needles.']
points
heads
eyes
un'-cle
block
heav'-y
ham'-mer
al-lowed'
laugh'-ing
watched
piece
sharp
1. The next thing that the children saw was a grindstone turning round
very, very fast.
2. A man put the bits of wire into a thing which was fixed just over the
grindstone, and both ends were quickly rubbed sharp.
3. 'Now you see the points of the needles,' said the man, as the wire
came out again.
'But there are no heads yet!' said Harry.
'And no eyes!' said Dora.
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