Mary had a little Lamb

Mary had a little Lamb - Mary Sawyer

Suffering Lamb

 In March 1815, on a cold morning in Sterling, Massachusetts, nine-year-old Mary Sawyer was helping her father with chores in the barn. She saw two lamb born one doing good, the other had been rejected by its mother and was lying in the straw, barely breathing, too weak to even stand. 


Mary as Lamb mother

 Over the next few days, with Mary's constant care—feeding it milk, keeping it warm, nursing it back to strength—the little creature recovered completely. And then something magical happened. The lamb, whom Mary had saved from death, became utterly devoted to her. It recognized her voice. It came running when she called. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb truly was "sure to go".

Lamb to school

.She tried to smuggle the lamb into the one-room Redstone School by hiding it in a basket under her desk, hoping it would stay quiet. As she was reciting her lesson in class, lamb came out of hiding. The students burst into laughter at the sight of a fluffy white lamb wandering the aisles, bleating and looking for Mary. 

Mary had a little Lamb The poem 

The next day, John Roulstone rode(a college student watching lamb to school the other day)his horse across the fields to the little schoolhouse and handed Mary a slip of paper. On it, he'd written three simple stanzas:

*"Mary had a little lamb,

Its fleece was white as snow,

And everywhere that Mary went,

The lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day,

That was against the rule.

It made the children laugh and play,

To see a lamb at school..."*

Mary had a little Lamb in school books

But the story doesn't end there. In 1830, a well-known writer and editor named Sarah Josepha Hale published a collection called Poems for Our Children. Among them was a poem called "Mary's Lamb"—the same verses John Roulstone had written, plus three additional stanzas with a moral lesson about kindness to animals. The poem spread like wildfire. It was reprinted in schoolbooks across America. Children everywhere began singing it. By the 1850s, it was one of the most famous children's poems in the country.


In 1876, at age 70, Mary finally came forward to share her story publicly. The girl who saved a lamb—and created a legend.

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