The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-08-22
WOOL FROM MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.
Made Into Yarn That seventy-ive Years
Later sold For $500 an Ounce.

Mado Into Yarn That twenty-five Year
Later Sold For $500 an Ounce.
have got some yarn that wa
made from the fleece of the origina
'Mary's little lamb, " said the wifi,
of well known Orange county law
Yer. There r only four strands O
1t, II each II is only a few inche.
in length, and it cost so cents ;
strand. There is no doubt about if:
being tho genuine wool Of that i'm.
mortal creature. / was in Boston +
Few years ago at the time the ladies
OF that city were raising funds tc
purchase the Old South church
which was threatened with destruc.
.tlon by the march of modern i'm,
provement. Among other devices
was a fair called Aunt Tabitha's
knitting bee, the attraction of which
was number of venerable DANES
who spun yarn on ancient spinning
wheels, just as they and their moth
ers 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
MIS-. Tyler was really the original of
the poem, but induced her to come
10 boston and spend a day at tho
knitting bee. She was a DELIGHTFUL
Old lady and told the story of her
little lamb.
When she was but a few years
Old, her name being Mary Sawyer,
among the lambs born on her fa.
ther S farm n night was one which
was such a weakling that Farmer
Sawyer said that it could not posi-.
bly, live. The child Mary felt such
pity for the helpless lambkin that
she begged her father to let her take
1t and try to nurse it into strength.
He told her to take it. She carried il
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
miserable when separated from
Tho stanza which says
ut followed her to school one day.
Which was against the rule.
1t made the children laugh and plav
To see n lamb ut school,
records a fact, Mrs. Tyler said. The
led a youth who attended
the school to put the story of Mary
her little lamb into verse. Tho
name is lost. The lamb grew
up and had lambs of it's 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
ad by a vicious COW, which gored it
with her horns and threw it into the
air. 1t fell at Mary's feet and died.
grief was deepand long last
1.-The fleece was removed from her
III fated pets body, and she spun it
with her own hands into yarn, q
quantity of which she kept over aft
among her treasures. She was
willing to part with some of it to aid
raising the fund for preserving
the Old South church and brought
with her to Boston perhaps a quar-
.er of an After she told the
story of Mary and her little lamb
yarn was in such demand that it
was cut up into lengths sufficient to
net S15 by the sale. ] bought four
little pieces of it at so cents a piece,
that is how l happen to have
OF the wool of Mary's little
amb. New York Sun.
Division of Africa.