How do we know that Mary had a little lamb?
Maybe it was big, or maybe it was not a lamb at all.
2007-04-23 18:05:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I dont think it was a lamb at all! I think it was a flesh eating, baby Hydra!
And the teacher didn't have time to tell her, "Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up!" One of the heads had eaten her up before she could get it out!
I also think that the new teacher was always praising Mary for her quick thinking and intelligent answers.
2007-04-24 02:20:37 · answer #1 · answered by Pixie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mary is a popular name. There are many families that own sheep. It is highly probable that a child named Mary would indeed own a little lamb, at least for a while. especially when you look at the problem over a period of centuries.
Of course, it is likely that the rhyme is about Mary having the Lamb of God, Jesus.
2007-04-24 01:39:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read this carefully...
Mary had a little lamb, whos fleece was white as snow
and everwhere that mary went, her lamb was sure to go.
The lamb was detailed and described well. Meaning there actually was a lamb that was little. There is nothing there that says that it wasn't a lamb. Another that the lamb follows her everywhere, anybody could have seen it.
2007-04-24 01:30:21 · answer #3 · answered by Aga 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite sure that somewhere sometime someone named Mary had a lamb and if it was a Lamb it was small but when it grew up it became and adult sheep. Now we don't know if it was a
ram or a Ewe do we???
2007-04-24 12:28:06 · answer #4 · answered by redmarc316 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary did, in fact, have a little lamb. And that's what she gets for sleeping in the stable.
2007-04-24 01:31:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhyme says it was 'little' and we have believed it since childhood.
If it was big, it would not have followed Mary everywhere.
Also the pic that went with the Rhyme said so: that the lamb was little.
2007-04-24 01:42:09 · answer #6 · answered by Mmmmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary was smoking crack and thought she was seeing lambs every where she went. so the neighborhood kids picked on her and thats how they came up with that little riddle.
2007-04-27 09:42:53 · answer #7 · answered by saywhat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well....we know that mary had a little lamb, because we believe it was a little lamb. =)
2007-04-24 01:14:08 · answer #8 · answered by workingonthat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
* As far as proof , there is only one bit of proof , and that is that in the picture there is a lamb next to her and that later on she had a woolie hat - where did the woolie hat come from ??? Only a lamb lol *
2007-04-24 05:10:08 · answer #9 · answered by Stephanie G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My niece's name is Mary. She was raised on a farm where sheep were raised.
2007-04-24 01:20:05 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋