Show IVI S L I 1 v 0 J U VIA LAMB was a real one Ao according cording to this new yorker charlis charles E chadeayne Chade ayno of 0 calking cal ning gives history of famous animal poet grabbed immortality from trip to school 4 new york I 1 marys little lamb was wag not a myth it was an actuality charles E chadeayne of Os ossining N Y js Is the authority who vouches for statement and he backs it up with proofs of the little creature creatural a 8 origin life deportment and above all its expert experience ence in school on oil that well remembered day the information concerning the famous animal la is gleaned from extensive researches made upon the collection of curios belon belonging jing to mr chadeayne exhibits in this collect collection io n demonstrate to a certainty that marys was a spring lamb b orn in ili 1817 in sterling mass where mary surnamed sawyer lived with her parents tile the lamb iamb destined to be eo 60 widely known in its earliest hours was frail in health several lambs had been born at about the same time and mary made a visit to the fold with her papa mary said her father that lamb is dead no papa replied the little girl for or when I 1 move its head it will move it back again but it cannot live said tier her father 0 yes maybe it can replied mary let tile me take it home and nurse it and tend it to this marys papa consented so mary took her little lamb and carried it homo home and warmed it and fed it and front from that moment the poem that everybody knows was assured the little girls pet was so grateful to its benefactor that it could hardly bear to have tier her butof out of its sight but mary mustio to school you know and so there had to be a separation for loveral hours every day but mary always said it a long goodby good by to it every morning once in ili a hurry this farewell slipped her mind until she had got considerable distance f from ro ni the house bouse aad an d that Is how it camo about that mary took the lamb to school and how the poetry spoken by every chick and child ln in america was inspired to bo be sure the poem says that it followed her to school one day well that cant be helped facts are f facts acts despite poets when mary remembered that she paid a parting visit to the lamb s bhe he hurried right back as quick a as 9 she could she had a little sound that she made that was half way between scream and song and no ametter matter cheo chero the lamb was when it heard beard that sound it would run tomary to mary As she aho 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 80 she wrapped it up in her shawl and took it along to school sa aha put it still wrapped in the shawl under her seat and she never studied so I 1 lard hard I 1 in n lier her life as she did that morning sho she dio all not want the teacher to look tier her way for fear she would see the lamb iamb hut but when the time camo came to say lessons the scholars in ili marys class had to go out and stand along a certain crack in ili the floor and what should happen but the ho moment that mary started the lamb started too and went right forward and stood on the crack with mary john rollestone was the poet who framed the original verses this man mail 1 of I f letters appears to have been a sort of new england en gland keats for he was at that time not more than 17 years old ile he was studying under the guidance of the village parson and as soon as lie he heard about the blanth incident he saw faw at once that here ills his opportunity I 1 in ili a kind of divine frenzy he taia dashed oft off the stanzas which relate of the lamb being sure to go where mary lary N 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 outside until mary came put out this effort contained only three stanzas and no more mary said in the late just before tier her death and constituted the poem as it was en from the white hot anvil of john Rolle stones inspiration so far as mary know knew rollestone 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 rollestone stanzas with one or two slight changes and to them had bad added three mary survived her lamb by about 65 years ti passing away in somerville mass at the age of sa 83 having in the ahe meantime married a man named tyler |