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For solution see Notes and Queries, xvi. 156; xvii. 83. In Latin alcaics, thus:
“Sedens Johannes parvus in angulo
Hornĕrus edit crustula Christmica;
Et dixit, ut pruna extrahebat
Pollice, ‘Quam sum ego suavis infans!’”
The Lincoln Herald, Jan. 13, 1832.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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