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Jack Horner

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For solution see Notes and Queries, xvi. 156; xvii. 83. In Latin alcaics, thus:

“Sedens Johannes parvus in angulo

Hornĕrus edit crustula Christmica;

Et dixit, ut pruna extrahebat

Pollice, ‘Quam sum ego suavis infans!ʹ”


The Lincoln Herald, Jan. 13, 1832.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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