PEDIATRICS Vol. 48 No. 4 October 1971, pp. 654
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The Book of Accidents: Designed for Young Children. Published in New Haven in 1830

Excerpt XVI: Climbing Trees

Thomas E. Cone Jr. M.D.

In the New England Primer the alphabet was taught by using diminutive illustrations of admonitory sentences. For the letter Z, Zaccheus is shown climbing a tree; the child memorized this rhyme:

Zaccheus he

Did climb the tree

Our Lord to see

In the lesson below the author cites far more likely reasons why boys climb trees.1