...slice of plum-pudding with sweet-sauce. He looked at the big raisins, and laughed, and began to sing, "Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas...pie; He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum, And cried, 'What a good boy am I!'" He wanted to pull out a plum; but the pudding looked so good, he said,...

...The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story Book (c. 17(10) 6 Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Hating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, what a good boy am I! Henry Carey Numhfi Pamby (1725) 7 Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet Hating her curds and whey; There...

...the other imperial. Like the images of a dream, they allude to successive layers of personal history. "He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum, and said what a good boy am I" exudes a boyish sense of phallic triumph. And "Is not this great Babylon, which I have planted?" resounds...

...self,feeling is one's actual success or failure. and the good or bad actual position one holds in the world, "He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum. and said. 'What a good boy am Il '"A man with a broadly extended empirical Ego. with powers that have uniformly brought him success....

...in his thumb . . . Doctor am 11": An allusion to the nursery rhyme: "Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, / Eating a Christmas pie. / He put in his...pulled out a plum, / And said, 'What a good boy am I!' " 43 One botanist says ... of its vegetation": Thoreau's source is Loudon, 2:1157, where this quotation...

...little booklet to put their thumbprints on and take home. Little Jack Homer sat in a corner, Eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum. And said, "What a good boy am I!" nurser . Snack: Make a real pie with the children, or taste plums. Related books Each Peach Pear Plum...

...recognized Mark Croft singing at the top of his voice: Little jack Horner sat in a corner Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good hoy am I. " The boys laughed uproariously and began dancing about, singing it again. Giles smiled and...

...child has seen snow!) Little Jack Horner, Sat in a corner, Eating his Christmas Pie, He put in a thumb, Pulled out a plum, And said, 'What a good boy am I!' You can illustrate this rhyme to your child by actions, using hands and fingers and a plastic mixing...

...them. [Variant: Dragging their tails behind them] > [in Foreman, Michael Foreman 's Mother Goose] (39) Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas...thumb And pulled out a plum And said, "What a good boy am1." > [in Foreman, Michael Foreman 's Mother Goose] (40) Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet Eating...

...For example, Ellen composed a song against it, which ran: Silly old Boney Sat on his Pony, Eating his Christmas Pie, He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum, And said, 'What a good boy am I,' and the smaller girls sang it without stopping for three hours. At the end of the day the Principal...