But how do you get your thread so sharp and stiff as to go through the holes you make?
I find it hard enough sometimes to get a thread through the eye of a needle; for though the thread is ever so much smaller than yours, I have to sharpen and sharpen it often before I can get it through.

But yours, though it is so thick, keeps so sharp that it goes through the holes at once--two threads at once--one from each side!" "Ah! but I don't sharpen my thread; I put a point upon it." "Doesn't that mean the same thing ?" "Well, it may generally; but _I_ don't mean the same thing by it.

Look here." "I see!" cried Willie; "there is a long bit of something else, not thread, upon it.

What is it?
It looks like a hair, only thicker, and it is so sharp at the point!" "Can't you guess ?" "No; I can't." "Then I will tell you.

It is a bristle out of a hog's back.