THE LITTLE JACK HORNER TRAGEDY
The story of Little Jack Horner will be on many lips this week; few, perhaps. know that there is a tragedy connected with it. A contemporary recalls that at the Reformation the chief of an abbey in the west of England resolved to surrender, and in token thereof to send the deeds of the religious house to Henry VIII. at Whitehall. For security's sake the abbot placed the documents in a picdish, and then covered them with a crust. The dish, without saying a word abtmt the contents, he gave to a lout. Jack Horner, with instructions to carry it by road to the King in London. About half-way Jack Horner became ravenous, and came to the philosophic conclusion that it was foolish of him to starve while he was the custodian of a pie. So he broke the crust, and put in his thumb and pulled out —a roll of parchments! The disgusted Jack Horner chucked the lot into an adjacent brook. The nonarrival of the deeds caused the Bluff King Hal to suspect the abbot of contumacy, so his Majesty commanded that the poor cleric should be hanged.—From "Westminster Gazette" (December 27th).
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 3
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199THE LITTLE JACK HORNER TRAGEDY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 3
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