Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

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Knit Your Bit

Swiftly, to and fro,

Let your needles fly!

Be not yours to know

Pause, for tear or sigh.

Stitch by stitch they grow,

Garments soft and warm

That will keep life’s glow

In some shivering form.

Sweater, muffler, sock,

For the soldiers’ wear!

List to pity’s knock—

For those “over there.”

Children’s voices, too,

In the sad refrain,

Wring our hearts anew,

From that world of pain.

Banish for a while

Tints of brighter hue,

Welcome with a smile

Khaki, gray and blue.

Days are cold and drear,

Nights are long and bleak,

Thoughts from home are dear,

Where the cannons shriek.

Let some simple thing,

That your hand employs,

Cheer and comfort bring

To our gallant Boys.

May there be no end

To what love supplies!

Thus their share we’ll send

To our brave Allies!

A. M. D.

October, 1917.

Khaki Knitting Book

Edited by

OLIVE WHITING

COPYRIGHT 1917, by ALLIES SPECIAL AID

19 East 37th Street, New York, N. Y.