Rhapsodies

By an incredible coincidence today’s rhyme “Can You Make a Horseshoe?” is the one right after yesterday’s in the Annotated Mother Goose and two before the day before… If I didn’t know any better I’d think I accidentally rigged the game.

I’m afraid, because I tweaked the angle of the bellows about five minutes in I kind of screwed up on the handle and how the apprentice would be holding it… it doesn’t help that I don’t know precisely what bellows for a seventeenth century forge would look like. (all the non automative ones I ever encountered were operated by a chain.)

Finally this is another example of how the phonetic drift of the language makes this challenge so interesting and has me wondering what “blow” and “shoe” sounded like originally.