Minn new thein biography of martin

The Country’s Good Son

By Minn New Thein

                Lin Aung’s mother had a shop in the Mingaladon market, where she sold slippers.  Lin Aung helped his mother in the shop during his school holidays.  As the Mingaladon market was an army market, soldiers could be seen shopping there daily.  It was more crowded on Sundays.   Many soldiers could be seen moving about busily.

                It was Sunday, and Lin Aung was sitting in front of the shop; “Younger Brother, do you have real ‘Sin-ky’ No.

9?” A young man, wearing trousers, entered and asked him. Quickly Lin Aung took a pair of ‘Sinkye’ No. 9 slippers and showed them. “How much are these slippers, Young Brother?” Twenty-one Kyats, Elder Brother.” “Can I take only the right s