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Show Mary's Little Lamb By Maxine Snow Mary had a little lamb. She thought he was so sweet. (So did ration pointless neighbors, neigh-bors, lacking tasty meat.) He followed her to school one day, The neighbors followed, too. With lusty eyes and gun in hand, What were they going to do? Poor Mary did not think that they Could ever be so cruel As to stalk her Lambikins On their way to school. She walked inside with Lamby, too: But still they lingered near ; More determined now than ever, Waiting without fear. As Mary summed up two and two, And found that it made four, Her Lambikins solved other I problems, Sitting by the door. He figured if he studied hard But when he looked outside. And when he saw the murd'rers there, He almost could have cried. He knew what they were planning. plan-ning. (He was wise as lambs can be) And luckily for Lambikins, Mary, too, could see. She jumped up from her desk Caring not what teacher said For it was better far, she thought, To get a D than find Lamby dead. She shook her fist and stamped her feet And cried out with alarm. Weren't they ashamed to even think To cause her Lamby harm? The people stared and silent stood. Their attitude had changed. They disregarded all the bloody Plans they had arranged. For, after all, though meat was scarce,' They would not kill her lamb. Instead, for dinner, all they had Was butterless toast and jam. |