The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-30
Ecw q Lawyer Tells It.
Detroit Free Press. [

Detroit Free Press.
Few poems have feen more gen.
orally admired or paraphrased in
the various tongues of earth than
that commencing with the lines:I
Mary had little lamb.
It's fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure 70 60.
Well, the story is now current, at
the national capital, that the distin-
guished Secretary Of State, when re-
recently In jocular crowd of his
friends, was desired to condense
into prose these immortal verses.
Urgently solicited, Mr.. Evarts.
yielded aud wrote as follows:
Mary, a female judged to be OF
the race OF man, whose family
name is unknown, whether of ma.
tive or foreign birth, of lofty, or
lowly lineage, and whose appear
ance, manners and mental cultiva-
tion are involved in the most pro
found mystery, which probably will
never be ascertained unless through
the most profound researches of
historian admirably trained in his
profession, who shall devote the
ablest efforts of his life TO the in
vestigation of the subject, unlnfiu-
enced by either passion or preju,
dice, and having only in view the
sacred truth, at the same time being
utterly regardless Of the plaudits
or censures OF the world, we are in
formed by one who, it has been
stated, at one time while living IN
that part OF the United States OF
America known as Massachusetts,
whose fishermen have frequently
been involved in difficulties with
the authorities of her Majesty,
Queen Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain and Empress of the-Indies,
whose domains extend over a large
share of the habitable globe, there
by endangering the peace which
should so happily exist between ma
tions of the same blood and Ian
guage, had an'intant sheep, of which
there are many millions, of various
stocks and qualities, now in our
country, constantly adding wealth
and prosperity to our republic aud
enabling US to be entirely indepen
dent of all other nations for our
supply of wool, now ample for the
use OF factories already busiIy EN-
ployed, aud for those which ere
long will be constructed in ali parts
OF our land, working both by water
and steam power. aud in whatever
direction the said Mary travelled,
this animal, whose fleece was snow
white, even as the lofty mountain
regions in the silent sohtudes of
eternal winter, as the ethereal va
pors which oft float over an autum
nal sky, "darkly, deeply, beautifully
blue" or as the tactical fluid, GOV
cred with masses OF delicate froth,
found in the buckets of the rosy
dairy-maid, whether meandering
through the meadows in midsum-
mer, gathering the luscious straw
berry, strolling in the woodland
paths, in search of wild flowers, Wis
iting the church with her uncles,
cousins and aunts, to listen to the
inspired words which came from the
lips of the minister of the sanctu
ary, or when retiring to her blissful
couch, to seek rest and enjoy sweet
repose after the cares and labors of
the day; in fact, everywhere that
Mary went this youthful sheep. in
huenced, doubtless, by that affec-
tion which is oft so cOnspicuously
by the lower animals in
their association with human beings,
was ever observed to accompany
her.
1t is stated that, when the pause
1.-The sentence came, the Secretary,
who had read it without any inspira-
ton, resumed his stolid diplomatic
and all mirthfulness
had departed from the faces of that
once happy company.