Saturday Reading!-" Mary had a little Lamb."
Saturday Reading!-" Mary had a little Lamb." Mary Sawyer Tyler : 1806-1889 "Mary had a little lamb" wasn't just a nursery rhyme it was a real 9-year-old girl who saved a dying lamb, and that lamb's wool eventually helped save a piece of American history. You sang it as a child. Maybe you've sung it to your own children: "Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb..." But did you know Mary was real? Her name was Mary Sawyer, and this is the true story behind one of the most famous poems in the English language. March 1815. Sterling, Massachusetts. A cold morning with frost still clinging to the barn walls. Mary was born New York Public Library“Birth-place of Mary Sawyer and the little lamb. Sterling, Mass.” Nine-year-old Mary Sawyer was helping her father with the morning chores when they discovered one of their ewes had given birth to twin lambs overnight. One lamb was healthy, nursing contentedly. The other lay motionless in the ...