Hop o' my Thumb (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

Middlemarch

Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains. They say, when he was a little boy, he made an abstract of 'Hop o' my Thumb,' and he has been making abstracts ever since. Ugh! And that is the man Humphrey goes on saying that a woman may be happy with.