Little Miss Mopsey sat in the shopsey, Eating of curds and whey; There came a great spider who sat down beside her And frightened Miss Mopsey away. (1842, p. 37.) Little Tom Tacket sits upon his cracket, Half a yard of cloth will make him a jacket, Make him a jacket and breeches to the knee, And if you will not have him, you may let him be. (1842, p. 199.) Little Tom Tucker sings for his supper, What shall he eat, but white bread and butter; How will he cut it, without e're a knife And how will he be married without e're a wife. (1744, p. 10; _c._ 1783, p. 56.) Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, Eating a [of] Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, and he took [pulled] out a plum, And said [cried] "What a good boy am I!" _Chorus_: And what a good boy am I! (_c._ 1783, p. 55.) These verses as they here stand arranged, show an increasing deviation from the words used in playing the game of Sally Waters. Tom Tucker and Jack Horner are names that go some way back in history. For Brand states that at the revels kept at St. John's College, 1 November, 1607, a Christmas Lord of the Revels was chosen as Thomas Tucker.[32] A dance tune of the _Dauncing Master_ was called _Tom Tucker_ also.[33] [32] Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, I, 219. [33] _The Dauncing Master_, 1686, p. 130. The name of Jacky Horner was familiar to Carey about the year 1720, as mentioned above. _Little Jack Horner_ was a well-known tune, and there is a direction in the Grub Street opera that the chorus shall be sung to this melody.[34] A chapbook of the latter half of the eighteenth century bears the title, _The Pleasant History of Jack Horner, containing his Witty Tricks_, etc. It cites the familiar rhyme, and further describes the pranks that the hero played upon women. This association and the name recall the expressions _hornified_, that is a cuckold;[35] _horning_, a mock serenade "without which no wedding would be complete"; and _Horn Fair_, a time of unusual licence, kept up in Kent: "all was fair at Horn Fair" (1876, p. 387). [34] Whitmore, loc. cit., p. 27. [35] Murray's Dictionary: _Horning_. CHAPTER VII THE GAME OF _SALLY WATERS_