The Apple Pie ABC is a simple rhyme meant to teach children the the alphabet and relates the various ways children react to an apple pie. After the first line, A was an apple pie, the rest of the letters refer to verbs.
The earliest mention of the rhyme appears in a religious work dated 1671. It first appears in printed form in Child’s New Play-Thing: being a spelling-book intended to make the learning to read a diversion instead of a task (London 1742, Boston 1750).
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