Show I Mary Mar Rad Ead the Lamb Lb New York World The poem Mary ar Had a Little Lite Lamb is founded fo on n facts The inci mci incidents h ci dents deIt which suggested the verses verse are areas area areas as a follows When Mary ary E Sawyer the heroine herine of the poem was a little girl in Sterling near Worcester Mass I where she wa was born she found a new newborn newborn newborn born lamb Iamb almost dead with cold She nursed it to t life Ufe and it became beame very much attached to her It I was wa her con constant constant stant playmate and one day her brother suggested taking It to school Arriving before the he opening it was put under the seat where I it lay con contentedly cn contentedly Mary being called caled to a reci reel recitation tation the lamb Iamb ran aisle asle after her to the great surprise of the he teacher It I was va put out ut of doors door but waited until un ti Mary came cae out of hool on her way home A young man named John happened to visit the school that day the Incident set him to t thinking and he composed the first three verses of the poem and gave them to o Mary Ma A Mrs rs Townsend added the others The lamb became a sheep and ald from the wool wol Marys mother knitted two pairs of f stockings for her these Mary ary kept until she was SO 80 years year old When the te ladies i Pt f Boston under undertook undertook undertook took to raise money for the Old South church several years ago ag Mary MaTY con contributed contributed contributed a pair of these stockings stocking the yarn yarn of r which was wa unraveled and wound on cards inscribed with her aut autograph autI autograph and sold Mary L N Sawyer r be became became became came the wife of Columbus Tyler and died in December 1889 |