Or, in the spirit of the foregoing suggestions, you may say, "Did the pin prick you?
I'll catch the little rogue, and hear what he has to say for himself.

Ah, here he is--I've caught him! I'll hold him fast.
Lie still in my lap, and we will hear what he has to say.
"'Look up here, my little prickler, and tell me what your name is .-- My name is pin .-- Ah, your name is pin, is it?
How bright you are! How came you to be so bright ?--Oh, they brightened me when they made me .-- Indeed! And how did they make you ?--They made me in a machine .-- In a machine?
That's very curious! How did they make you in the machine?
Tell us all about it!--They made me out of wire.

First the machine cut off a piece of the wire long enough to make me, and then I was carried around to different parts of the machine to have different things done to me.

I went first to one part to get straightened.

Don't you see how straight I am ?--Yes, you are very straight indeed .-- Then I went to another part of the machine and had my head put on; and then I went to another part and had my point sharpened; and then I was polished, and covered all over with a beautiful silvering, to make me bright and white.'" And so on indefinitely.