This is the Mother Goose rhyme of Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater, as it usually appears: Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. There is a second verse, that is sometimes appended: Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn't love her; Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved her very well. It is not, perhaps, in this form, a very old rhyme. Its first recorded publication was in 1825, in Boston…