Little Jack Horner in the Tudor period. The song’s most common lyrics are: <poem style="margin-left:24px> Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!"</poem> It was first documented in full in the nursery rhyme collection "Mother Goose's melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle", which may date from 1765, although the earliest surviving English edition is from 1791. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his "National Nursery Rhymes and
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes "But you don't know what a scramble I live in; and the old drawings are some of them better than any I could do now." Fruing grabbed at Potter's proposal. "Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes" was released in October 1917 with a revised edition of "Peter Rabbit's Painting Book" and the new "Tom Kitten's Painting Book". "Appley Dapply" sold well. Potter was satisfied and wrote Warne in late October, "I am much pleased with A. D., it makes a pretty book." It was reprinted in November 1917, and, by the end of the year, 20,000 copies had been sold. The dummy