GIVING AND TAKING

  Once there lived a man who had a valley-
full of needles.  And one day the mother
of Jesus came to him and said:  "Friend,
my son's garment is torn and I must needs
mend it before he goeth to the temple.
Wouldst thou not give me a needle?"

  And he gave her not a needle, but he 
gave her a learned discourse on Giving and 
Taking to carry to her son before he should
go to the temple.