The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-12-11
Secretary Evarts and Mary's Lit.
tie Lamb.

| tie Lamb.
Few poems have been more generally
admired or Photographed in the various
tongues Of earth than that commencing
with the lines
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white snor,
And everywhere that Mary went
This lamb was sure TO go.
Well, the story is now current at the
national capital that the distinguished
Secretary of State, when recently in a
ocular crowd of his friends, was de-
sired to condense into prose these i'm
mortal verses. Urgently solicited, Mr..
Evarts yielded and wrote as follows:
"Mary, female judge to be of the
race Of man, whose family name is I'M
known, whether of native or foreign
birth, Of lofty or lowly lineage, and
whose appearance, manners and mental
cultivation are involved in the most
profound mystery, which probably never
will be fully ascertained unless through
the most profound researches of histo-
rian admirably trained in his profession,
who shall devote the ablest efforts of
his life to the investigation of the SUBJ
ject, uninhuenced by either passion or
prejudice and having only in view the
sacred truth, at the same time being ut
terly regardless of the plaudits or cen.
sures of the world, we are informed by
one who, it has been stated, at one time
while living in that part Of the United
States OF America, known as Massa-
chusetts, whose fishermen have fire.
quently been involved in difficulties
with the authorities of her Majesty
Queen Victoria, queen of Great Britain
and empress of the Indies, whose do
mains extend over large share of the
habitable globe, thereby endangering the
peace which sho.ld so happily exist be-
tween the 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 enabling US to be
entirel Y independent of all other nations
for our supply of wool, now ample for
the use of factories already busily EN-
ployed, and for those which ere long will
be constructed in all parts of our land,
working both by water and steam pow
err, and in whatever direction the said
Mary travelled, this animal, whose fleece
was snow white, even as the lofty noun
tain regions i'll the silent solitudes of
eternal Winter. as the ethereal vapors
which oft float over an Autumnal sky,
'darkly, deeply, beautifully blue" or as
the tactical fluid covered with masses of
delicate froth, found in the buckets of
the rosy dairymaid, whether meander-
ing through the meadows in midsummer,
gathering the luscious strawberry, stroll
ing in the woodland paths in search of
wild flowers, visiting the church with
her uncles, cousins and aunts, TO listen
to the inspired words which came from
the lips of the minister of the sanctuary,
or when retiring to her blissful couch to
enjoy rest and seek sweet repose after
the cares and labors of the day, In fact,
everywhere that Mary went this youth
full sheep, influenced, doubtless, by that
affection which is oft so conspicuously
manifested by the lower animals in their
association with human beings, was ever
observed to accompany her.
1t is stated that, when the pause in
the sentence came, the Secretary, who
had read it without an inspiration, re
sumed his stolid diplomatic countenance,
and all mirthfulness had departed from
the faces of that once happy company.
Detroit Free Press.