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Show This Happened in Boston. "Cynthia, will you recite, 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' for us?" asked the kind old gentleman. "I do not care to, much as I should like to oblige you," replied the little girl with the horn-rimmed eyeglasses. "As a matter of fact, the poem has little, lit-tle, if any, literary value, and in addition addi-tion is not true to life as it exists today. to-day. Under the constriction in trade, due to the meat trust, Mary could not own an entire lamb. She might have had a chop, but beyond that the poet's imagination must be blamed." Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Public Ledger. |