by Hugh Ross Williamson.
Certain nursery-rhyme characters can be identified without any reasonable doubt. For instance, the little girl with a little curl right in the middle of her forehead was Edith Longfellow, the daughter of the poet Henry Longfellow; and the brave old Duke of York who had ten thousand men was King George Ill's son, Frederick. But Little Boy Blue?
(Recorded broadcast of Nov. 21, 1957)