The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-07-18

hour he went up stairs to rest an get
the SCOT out of his hair an ashes off his
vest.
Then Sue, she saw her chance had
come an worked with might an
main an took the top coal off an fixed
the hampers back again. The fire was
sinkin all the time. SO BlQther Sam
came i'll an hanged the POKER in the
CRATE an made a fearful din, all said
that women ought to fuss with things
they understood, an what that blame
fire needed was a few dry sticks of
wood. She cried, an pap All ma came
down an Aunt Jane an the boys, an the
baby woke an yelled awhile to help
along the noise. An the fire, it watched
the battle, an it listened to EN- shout,
an then saw its opportunity IN quietly
went ut.-Washington Star.
WOOL FROM MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.
Made Into Yarn That seventy-fve Years
Later Sold For $500 An Ounce.
l have got some yarn that was
made from the fleece of the original
Mary little lamb, " said the wife
of a we'll known Orange county law.
yer. There r only four strands of
it, and each one is only a few inches
in length, and it cost so cents a
strand. There is no doubt about it's
being the genuine wool of that i'm
mortal creature. I was in Boston a
few years ago at the time the ladies
Of that city were raising funds to
purchase the Old South church,
which was threatened with destruc-
ton by the march of modern i'm.
provement. Among other devices
IA a. fair called Aunt Tabitha's
knitting bee, the attraction of which
was a number of venerable danes
who spun yarn on ancient spinning
wheels, just as they and their moth
CTS had spun it from the wool in the
early days. Some Boston lady heard
that Mary, the heroine of the little
lamb rhyme, was living at Sterling,
Mass, in the person of octogenarian
Mrs. Tyler, a widow. This lady went
to Sterling and not only found that
Mrs. Tyler was really the original of
the poem, but induced her to come
to Boston and spend a day at the
knitting bee. She was a delightful
old lady and told the story of her
little lamb.
"When she was but a few a
old, her name being Mary Sawyer,
among the lambs born on her ia
theirs farm one night was one which
was such a weakling that Farmer
Sawyer said that it could not posi-
bly, live. Tho child Mary felt such
pity for the helpless lambkin that
she begged her father to let her take
it and try to Nurse it into strength.
He told her to take it. She carried it
to the house, and all the rest of the
day and all the following night treat
ed it with such gentle care that next
morning it was much improved, and
Farmer Sawyer rejoiced Mary by
telling her that it would live and
grow strong. Such proved to be the
case, and as it grew the lambs af-
lection for Mary was so great that it
was miserable when separated from
her."
1.-THE stanza which says
sit followed her to school one day,
Which was against the rule.
1t made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school,
records a fact, Mrs. Tyler said. The
occurrence led a youth who attended
the school to put the story of Mary
and her little lamb into verse. The
poets name is lost. The lamb grew
up and had lambs of its own, but the
fondness of the lamb for Mary and
of Mary for the lamb never grew
less. One day as it was following
Mary, who had gone to the pasture
after the COWS. the lamb was attack
ed by a vicious COW, which gored it
with her horns and threw it into the
air. 1t fell at Mary's feet and died.
Mary's grief was deep and long last
ing.
1.-The fleece was removed from her
i'll fated pets body, and she spun it
with her own hands into yarn, a
quantity of which she kept ever aft
er among her treasures. She was
willing to part with some of it to aid
in raising the fund for preserving
the Old South church and brought
with her to Boston perhaps a quar-
ter of an ounce. After she told the
story of Mary and her little lamb
her yarn was in such demand that it
was cut up into lengths sufficient to
net SIS by the sale. bought four
little pieces of it at so cents a piece,
and that is how l happen to have
some of the wool of Mary's little
lamb. New York Sun.