WILL CROOKS' MOTHER
Of all the pathetic memories of lii* i-hildliood few were more touching than Will Crooks' tributes to hi? mother. "She was mother, father, everything to us." lie UM-.l io say. recalling his early days in a little back room in Shirbutt Street. Poplar. Seven souls did this little room hold.
"My mother was often crying in those early days," said Will Crooke, "and we loved her so much that any trouble she
was in hit us to the i-ore, and we wept; for her when in truth .-lie was weeping for tid. Vet desperately poor us we were, it was her boast that we were never allowed to get up until wo had had a breakfast. "One Boxing Day morning. I remember, ny we-.v ordered to etay in bed. We could not understand why, and protested, but in vain. The fact was that there was not a bite in the house, and she would not allow us to get up until she had gone out and got a meal for u=, Llcavcn alone knows how,"
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 282, 26 November 1921, Page 17
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