THE GREAT MITTEN MAKER

(Canada's Great Depression in the 30's)
 

My mother came from Winnipeg and winters there were cruel!

She heard about a little child, in my Grade One Class at school!

A girl, who could not hold a pencil...hands and knuckles always bleeding!

This child had no mittens! Attention she was needing!

"NO MITTENS?" my mother asked,"Then, give her both of yours!"....and so,

I quietly put my mittens in Maria's desk!...... I didn't want her to know!

This was the beginning, of the "Great Mitt Knit"! Big ones..small
ones...for all sizes they must fit!

Each day, I'd see my Mom, by the radiator...needles and balls of wool, at
ten and even later!

She unravelled old sweaters and rewound the wool! Her life wasn't affluent,
but it was full!

Full of mittens! Her small acts of LOVE and charity! A role model every
day,

For my sibblings and me!

Pauline Banning
W3-913-97-D8

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