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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... LIBRARY OF FICTION JOHN HORNER; THE MAN WITH "THE PLUMS." BY DOUGLAS JERROLD, AUTHOR OF "JOB PIPPINS," "THE RENT DAY," &C. Unless the early education of the reader has been culpably neglected, he must have a due knowledge of the extraordinary sagacity, and, withal, self-complacency of John Horner, or, as he is familiarly denominated by his 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 ami!'" Touched by the intelligence and amiable self-glorification eternized in this simple verse, we have more than twice regretted the silence of history on the after achievements of the hero: if, we have thought, the child be father to the man, what plums must John Horner have picked out--what poeans must he have sounded to his own successful parts! The world before him, one large Christmas pie, he from his little stool in the chimneycorner of his grandam, to his soft-cushioned chair in the old oak-room of his beautiful manor-house, went on, putting in his thumb, and picking out a plum, and crowing shrill-voiced triumph at every new possession. To such a genius it would matter little, we have thought, where the plums were scattered: it. was not necessary to him that they should lie on the surface, to be counted by a blind man--no, were there but a single plum, and that in the pie's centre, the invincible and unerring thumb would dig it forth. How often do we see the thumb of an Apollo grope vainly in a pie full of plums, when the thumb of a John Horner shall pick them out as a hen picks up barley! VOL. II. B Shrewd and happy John Horner! who, shutting his eyes to the vanities of trifling spirits, considered this wide earth as only one...
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