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Everyone is familiar with the nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb," but you may not be aware that it is based on a true storey. Mary Sawyer was her name. She was an 11-year-old girl from Boston who was accompanied to school one day by her pet lamb. In the late 1860s, she raised funds for an ancient church by selling lamb wool.