Arsonists No Longer On the Lamb

This just in via Insurance Journal:

Men Charged with Setting Fire to Home of 'Mary' from 'Little Lamb' Poem

Two men are accused of burning down the Sterling, Mass. birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme 'Mary Had a Little Lamb.'

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They are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in connection with the Aug. 12 fire that destroyed a vacant house in Sterling where town officials say Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was born in 1806.

Several ladybugs, on hearing the news, were seen to be flying away home.  Mary's spokesperson, Thomas A. Edison, could not be reached for comment.

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[Lamb illustration from The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1766).]