2. Mary
had
a
little
lamb,
Its
1leece
was
white
as
snow,
And
everywhere
that
Mary
went
The
lamb
was
sure
to
go.
It
followed
her
to
school
one
day,
Which
was
against
the
rule.
It
made
the
children
laugh
and
play
To
see
a
lamb
at
school.
4. he nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing
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firm Marsh, Capen Lyon, as an original poem by Sarah Josepha
Hale on May 24, 1830, and was inspired by an actual incident.
oung Mary Sawyer decided to take her little lamb to school one
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day at the suggestion of her brother.
isiting Mary's school that day was a young man that was very
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taken by the presence of the lamb.
he next day he returned to the little red school house and
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handed Mary a piece of paper with the three original stanzas
written upon it.
History
History
5. In the first recording of the
human voice in 1877, Thomas
Edison recited Mary Had a
Little Lamb
The Redstone School is
believed to be the one
mentioned in the rhyme, it is
now located in Sudbury,
Massachusetts.
There is a statue of Mary's
lamb in Sterling,
Massachusetts.
This building incorporates the
original “Redstone”
schoolhouse, scene of the
rhyme.
6.
7. In the 1830s, Lowell Mason set the nursery rhyme
to a melody adding repetition in the verses
