The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-01
ONE OF EvARrs' SENTENCES

His E%lucidation of the coupiet, "Msry
r Had a Little Lamb"
From the Chicago Times. j
Few poems have been more generally
admired or paraphrased in the yariou.
tongues Of earth than that commenc.
Ing with the lines:
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And every where that mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
Well, the story is now current at the
national capital that the distinguished
secretary of state, when recently in o
ocular crowd Of his friends, was desir-
ed to condense into prose these immort-
al verses. Urgently solicited, MI. Ev-
arts yielded, and wrote as follows:
MARY, a female judged to be of the
race of man, whose family name is un-
known, whether Of native or foreign
birth, OF lofty or lowly lineage, and
whose appearance, manners. and ment-
al cultivation are involved in the most
profound mystery, which probably
never will be fully ascertained, unless
through the most profound researches
Of a historian admirably trained in his
profession, who shall devote the ablest
efforts of his life to the investigation
OF the subject, uninfiuenced by either
passion or prejudice, and having only
In view the sacred truth, at the same
time being utterly regardless of the
plaudits or of the world, we
are Informed by one who, it has been
stated, at n time while living in that
part Of the United States known as
Massachusetts,, whose fishermen have
frequently been involved in difficulties
OF her Majesty Queen Victoria, Queen
of Great Britain and Empress of the
Indies, whose dominions extend over a
large share of the habitable globe, there
by endangering the peace which should
so happily exist between nations of the
same blood and language, had an infant
sheep OF which there are many millions
OF various stocks and qualities now in
our country, constantly adding wealth
and prosperity to our republic, and en-
abling us to be entirely independent of
all other nations for our supply of wool,
now ample for use of factories already
busily employed, and for those which
ere long will be constructed in all parts
of our land, working both by water and
steam power, and in whatever direction
the said Mary travelled this animal
whose fleece was snow white, even as
the lofty mountain regions in the silent
solitudes of eternal winter, as the ethe-
real vapors which oft float over autumn
nal sky, 'darkly, beautifully blue.' or as
the lacteal fluid, covered with masses
of delicate froth, found in the buckets
Of the fairy dairy maid, whether mean
dering through the meadows in mid
summer, gathering the luscious straw
berry, strolling in the woodland paths
search of wild flowers, visiting the
church with her u%ncles, cousins and
aunts to listen to the inspired words
which came from the lips of the minis
ter Of the sanctuary, or when retiring
to her blissful couch to seek rest and
enjoy sweet repose after the cares Of
the day-in fact everywhere that Mary
WENT this useful sheep, influenced,
doubtless, by that affection which is SO
oft conspicuously manifested by the
lower animals in their association with
human beings, was ever observed to ac-
company her."
1t IS stated that when the pause in
the sentence came the secretary, who
had read it without an inspiration, re-
sumed his solid diplomatic c~ountenance
and all m~irthfulness had departed from
the faces Of that once happy company.
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.