“Little Jack Horner” is a particularly short nursery rhyme, with the whole jingle totaling just six lines: “Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his ...

Mr. ROBERTS: Little Jack Horner was actually Thomas Horner. The name Jack comes up in nursery rhymes a lot, usually to reflect a slightly knavish character, a bit of a ne'er-do-well.