One cent is the purchase price of a section of fine cord usually used to attach one portion of fabric to another; it is also the purchase price of a small, slender sewing implement with a minute orifice in the posterior extremity through which the aforementioned cord is passed to efficiently conduct it through the desired fabrics. In this manner, our immediate supply of the legally established negotiable commodity of exchange is consumed, and, once again, the sound of rapidly reduced air pressure accompanies the mustela's bursting open.