Punch, Or the London Charivari, volume 101, October 10, 1891
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_) Some commentators are of opinion that "HORNER. " was atypographical error for "HOMER. " But the prefix; and the epithetcombined to militate against this ingenious and plausible, butspecious, theory. "HOMER" was not in any sense "Little, " nor was hisPagan name "JACK. " Again, "Corner, " in the second line, could notin any language have ever rhymed with "HOMER. " He knew that "Cromer"furnished them with a rhyme for "HOMER;" but if this were accepted, what became of the ancient Greek, of the S...yriac, of the Phoenician, of the Nimrodic legends, nay, of the very _Iliad_ itself, if "HOMER"were a native of "Cromer"? (_Loud and prolonged cheers. _) No!"Jack Horner, " or, as it was originally written, "Jakorna, " wasof Scandinavian origin, and it was, in all probability, a mythmicrhyth--No, beg pardon, he should say a rhythmic myth (_Cheers_)sung by a wandering Sam Oar Troupe on their visiting Egypt and theProvinces before the time of the Celtic-Phoenician O'SIRIS, or atleast before the reign of RAMESES THE FIRST, ancestor of the greatScotch RAMSEY family--(_Cheers_)--at one of the social entertainmentsgiven on a non-hunting day by that eminent sportsman NIMROD.
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