"Needle.

Allee same as pin, barring that a pin's got a head with no eye in it, and a needle's got an eye with no head to it." "You no talkee, you lookee," pleaded Ah-Fo.
"One for you, Dennis," laughed the engineer.

We looked, and Ah-Fo put the needle into his mouth and swallowed it.

He gave himself a pat or two and made some grimaces to show that it felt rather prickly going down, and then he produced a second needle, and tested and then swallowed that.

In this way he seemed to swallow twelve needles, nor, with the closest watching, could we detect that they went anywhere but into his mouth.
"Will he make it a baker's dozen, I wonder ?" gasped Dennis.
But this time Ah-Fo produced a small ball of thread, and it followed the needles, after which he doubled himself up in uneasy contortions, which sent us into fits of laughter.