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about a pin; why should it not be one man’s trade 
to make pins? 
Mr. B.—And how many pins do you think he 
could make in a day? it has been said one, But 
suppose him to make fifty; you can hardly allow 
him more, if you consider how many operations he 
would have to perform. First, he must draw out 
his wire; then he must straighten it; then he must 
clean it; then he must cut it; then he must point 
it; and now he must leave the pin to make its 
head; this, as George has told you, is done by 
three separate persons; so he would have first to 
twist the wire—then to cut it into heads—then to 
soften the heads over a furnace, to watch the fur- 
nace, and to take them out and cool them before 
he could go on with his work. When cooled, he 
would hare to fit the head on to the pin—then to 
whiten it—then to polish. The sticking and sort- 
ing we may leave out, because his fifty pins would 
not give him much trouble in that way. 
‚Sophy.—Oh, father! I see I had forgotten half 
he had to do; and now I have been reckoning up 
that twelve persons were employed about every 
pin which was made in that manufactory. 
Mr. B.—It was about that number; in some 
manufactories it is more, in some less. But think, 
Sophy, how your workmen would be perplexed 
about all these different operations; he would 
neverhave becomedexterousinanyone. Whercas, 
by thewhole labour being divided,and each person 
keeping to his own part, he becomes e=nert in that 
one, andnotimeisloret in changi=ghisemployment, 
These twelre persons, together, could make, as