...in the little narrative of Jink I hi in r. Little Jack Homer Sat in a comer Eating a Christmas pie« form'd !' From this history it will he at once evident that the complacency of Little Jack arises, not from...

...September, 1831 :— The great Capt. Ross, Both haughty and cross, Was eating his pudding and pie,He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said what a great fool am I. We may perhaps have given to this anecdote a higher degree of embellishment than its...

...historian, " little Jack Horner," the wise child, who — " Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmns pic ; He put in his thumb. And pulled out a plum. And said—' what a brave boy am I !' " Touched by the intelligence and amir able self-glorification eternized in this...

...September, 831 :— The great Capt. Ross, Both haughty and cross, Was eating his pudding and pie, He pat in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said what a great fool am I. We may perhaps have given to this anecdote a higher de " embellishment than its merits...

...historian, " little Jack Horner," the wise child, who— " Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas pie ; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said — ' what a brave boy am I !'" Touched by the intelligence and amiable self-glorification eternized in this simple...

...a namesake of the hero, who found life, as it were, a Christmas pie. " He put in his thumb, And he pulled out a plum, And said, What a good boy am I ?" Our opinion of the greater fitness of Greek to give the true spirit of nursery rhymes, is borne...

...his Christmas pie, when He put in his thumb Ana pulled out a plum, And said — What a good boy »т I ! Some of the steam arms or levers just described...gifted with what may be termed "double-thumbs," and according! v these perforate two holes at a time, or forty per minute — the round pieces of iron...

...your proceedings," rejoined the solicitor, "and put me greatly in mind of a certain Jack Homer who ' Put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said ' What a good boy am I.' ' We don't do these things in London, Master Constable." " That fs a pity, sir," said Mr. Higginthorp...

...rejoined the solicitor, "and put me greatly in mind of a certain Jack Horner, who 'Put in his tbumb, And pulled out a plum, And said what a good boy am I. ' We don 't do these things in London , Master Constable." "That 'sa pity, Sir," said Mr. Higginthorp,...

...the dough she is kneading, or as the child Hornet' perforated the crust of his Christmas pie, when ' He put in his thumb ' And pulled out a plum, And said—...the steam arms or levers just described are gifted wilh what may be termed ' double-thumbs,' and accordingly these perforate two holes at a time, or forty...