Show was a real one according to this new yorka charles E chadeayne of s n ng gives H story of famous animal poet grabbed immortality from trip to school new ork marys little lamb was not a myth it was an actuality charles E chadeayne CLa deayne of N Y is the authority who vouches lor this statement and he lacks it up with proofs of the little creature s origin life deportment ard above all its experience in school en that well remembered day the information cone aning the famous animal Is gleaned exten sive researches made upon the callec alon of curios belonging to mr chade ayne exhibits in thio collection demonstrate to a certainty that mary a was a spring lamb bon la in sterling mass where alary sur named sawyer lived with her 1 ar ent the lamb destined to be so widely known in its eail lest hours was trail in health several lambs had been born at about the same time and mary made a asit to the fold with her papa mary said her father that lamb Is dead no papa replied the little girl for when I 1 move its head it will move it back again but it cannot live said her father 0 yes maybe it can replied mary let me take it home and nurse it and tend it to this mary s papa consented so mary took her attle lamb and carried it home and warmed it and fed it and from that moment the poem that everybody knows was assured the little girl s pet was so grateful to its benefactor that it could hardly bear to have her out of its sight but mary must go to school you know and so there had to be a separation for several hours every day but mary always said a long good by to it every morning once in a hurry this farewell slipped her mind until she had got considerable distance aiom the house and that is how it came about that mary took the lamb to school and how the poetry kenby every chick and child in america was inspired to be sure the poem says that it followed her to school one day well that can t be helped facts are facts despite poets when mary remembered that she haan hadn t paid a parting to the lamb she hurried right back as quick as she could she had a little sound that she made that was half way between scream and song and no matter where the lamb was when it heard that it would run to mary As she hastened homeward she made that little sound and sure enough here came the lamb it looked up so plead angly that mary just take it back to the house and so she wrapped it up in her shawl and took it along to school she put it still wrapped in the shawl under her seat and she never studied so hard in her life as she did that morning she did not want the teacher to look her way tor fear she would see the lamb but when the time came to sav lessons the schol ars in mary a class had to go out and stand along a certain crack in the floor and what should happen but the moment that mary started the lamb started too and went right for ward and stood on the crack with mary john rollestone was the poet who framed the original verses this man of letters appears to have been a sort of new england keats tor he was at that time not more than 17 years old lie was studying under the guidance of the village parson and as soon as he heard about the lamb incident he saw at once that here djs his in a kind of divine frenzy be dashed off the stanzas which relate of the lamb being sure to go where mary did and following her to school and about it making the children laugh and play and about it being against the rules and about the teacher turn ing it out and about it waiting out side until mary came out this effort contained only three stanzas and no more mar said in the late 80 s just before her death and constituted the poem as it was strick en from the white hot anvil of john rollestone s inspiration so tar as mary knew rollestone Foll estone wrote no more regarding the adventures of the lamb it was not until several years later that mary read in a newspaper some verses accredited to mrs sara J hale and entitled marys little lamb mrs hale had used the rol bestone stanzas with one or two slight changes and to them had added three mary survived her lan b by about 65 years passing away in somerville mass at the age of sa having in the meantime married a apan named oyier |