 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1843 - 744 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Payne R. James - 1846 - 1166 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1845 - 426 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1849 - 644 Seiten
...a young cook playfully pokes her finger through the dough she is kneading, or as the child Hornet' perforated the crust of his Christmas pie, when '...pulled out a plum, And said— What a good boy am I ! ' Some of the steam arms or levers just described are gifted wilh what may be termed ' double-thumbs,'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1849 - 660 Seiten
...dough she is kneading, or as the child I Joriier perforated the crust of his Christmas pie, when < He ' He put in his thumb ' And pulled out a plum, And said — What a good boy am I ! ' Some of the steam arms or levers just described are gifted with what may be termed ' double-thumbs,'... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 Seiten
...is kneading, or as the child Horner perforated the crust of his Christmas pie, when " He put in hie thumb And pulled out a plum, And said — What a good boy am I !" Some of the steam arms or levers just described are gifted with what may be termed "double-thumbs,"... | |
 | 1852 - 1170 Seiten
...apply to one of the Homers of Mells ? " Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas pie, He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said what a good boy am I." The plum being 100,OOOZ. I have been told a long story on the matter by Somersetshire people. PMM The... | |
 | 1859 - 316 Seiten
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 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1861 - 268 Seiten
...easily as a young cook playfully pokes her finger through the dough she is kneading, or as the child Horner perforated the crust of his Christmas pie,...pulled out a plum, And said — What a good boy am I ! ' Some of the steam-arms or levers just described are gifted with what may be termed ' double-thumbs,'... | |
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Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I! 
