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More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie. Treacherous Steward "Jack" Horner filched and stole them out. Later this bold deed was totally emasculated in a nursery rhyme...
Little Jack Horner...
...Hickok, Yale 41 1-8 1894--Hickok, Yale 42 1895--Hickok, Yale 42 11 1-2 1898--McCracken, Penn 43 8 1-2 1900--Beck, Yale 44 3 1902--Beck, Yale 44 8 1-2 1903--Beck, Yale 46 1907--Krueger, Swarthmore 46 5 1-2 1911--Horner, Michigan 46 7 1-8 1912--Beattie, Columbia 48 10 3-4 1924--Hartranft, Stanford 49 5 7-8 1925--Hills, Princeton 49 9 5-8 Other Winning Marks Over 46 Feet 1909--Little, Harvard 46 2 1910--Horner, Michigan 46 4 1-2 1913--Whitney, Dartmouth...
Little Jack Horner, sitting in his corner and eating with his fingers, inculcates bad table-manners...