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 good thing, they might never know how to knit if it wasn't for the bears."

"You don't have to own bears to learn how to knit. I can knit darling things for doll babies, and I'm going to for these babies. I can knit cunning bootees, mittens, sacks and bonnets. It is such lovely work with the soft wool and all the pretty colors."

"My mother used to know how to knit when she was a little girl," piped up Mirandy. "She's Janie's grandmother, you know. She did a funny thing once. It was during war-time. The girls met at our house to knit stockings for the soldiers. My mother hated it, and only knit one, while the others knitted two. So what do you think she did? The day came to send them, and she put