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Show Mary Had A Little Lamb The following is a Chinese version of Mary and her little lamb. "Was gal name Moll has lamb. Flea all samee white snow, Evly place Moll gal walkee, Ba Ba hopee long too." We heard a Son of Erin try¬ing to surround Mary and her little lamb the other day, and this is the way he understood it: "Begorry, Mary had a little shape, And the wool was white intoily; An' wherever Mary wud sthi her sthumps, The young shape would fol¬low her complately". So we have the French ver¬sion: "La petite Marie had le jeune muttong; See wool was blanchee as ze snow; And wherever La Belle Marie went, La jeune muttong was zue to go." Oui Monsier, you avez un very large imagination; mais commentest this, pour Deutsche: "Lot Mary haf got ein leedle schaf; Mit hair just like some vool; Und all der place dat gal did went, Las schaf go like em fool." We inscribe the following version to the dear girls of Boston: "Tradition testifies, and history verifies the testimony, that one Mary was at one time possessed of a youthful member of the genus sheep, Whose excellence of blood and neatness of manner rendered his, or her, exterior fringe as beautifully translucent as the driven, beautiful snow And it is stated in the most authentic manner (pp. 2 and 3 Vol. 1, Nursery Rhymes, q. v. ) that nowhere did the charming little lady (probably a Boston girl's perambulator) But the aforementioned quadrupedal vertebrate did with alacrity approximate thither." Algie met a bear; The bear was bulgy; The bulge was Algie. To The One I Love Editors note: This contri¬buted verse reveals thoughts of a spring-fever victim. It is printed in its original form without any alteration. Lyps like yours were made for mine They are so red and Delicious too All we need is a little time And the rest I'll leave up to "you. As We sit so close in the evening the temption is so great |