Little Jack Horner

Vintage Mother Goose Illustration, A Little Golden Book, 1942, Meadow Sweet Grove Collection

There are a lot of musings about this English nursery rhyme, many with political interpretations.

The first thing I noticed, however, is that it is somewhat odd that Little Jack Horner somehow equates that he is a good boy, by virtue of either the existence of a plum in his pie, or by the fact that he has extracted it.  Both seem rather egotistical and out-of-keeping with how children would have been expected to behave in those long, long years past.  So we get from this that he is a rather naughty boy and then the speculations can begin....

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