Mary's little lamb
Mary had a little lamb, Little lamb, little lamb, Mary had a little lamb, It's fleece as white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. That is the first verse of a traditional nursery rhyme. In 1812 Mary Sawyer, an 11 year old girl from Boston, supposedly had a lamb that she took her to school one day on the suggestion of her brother! In 1863 Mary was raising money for her parish church when she found a pair of old stockings that had been made from the infamous lamb's wool, unraveled them and sold bits of the wool on little cards; these were priced at ten cents per souvenir! Sarah Josepha Hale of Philadelphia is said to have written the original poem in 1823 but it was published in an American children's magazine in 1830. However, Mary claimed that a man named John Roulstone had actually written the rhyme. As a result a plaque was laid commentating the first three verses to Roulstone and the rest to Hale. The m...