The blog entry on the Hooded Claw has been postponed to a later date. Instead, I'd like to expose a Mother Goose Rhyme:
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall!
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!
All the King's Horses and all the king's men
couldn't put Humpty together again."
When I went to Camp Fatima on the last week of August 1975, the theme of the week was "Mother Goose." I met them all: Little Bo Peep, Mary Mary Quite Contrary and Humpty Dumpty. The guy who's a big egg who collapses into egg yolks. Well, here's something shocking: in the 16th. through 19th. centuries, people weren't allowed to criticize the government, especially in England. Such gossip was punishment by death, so rhymes were created to parody such events.
Well, in this particular case, Humpty Dumpty referred to a large cannon mounted on a church tower in Colchester, England. During the English Civil War, the tower was hit by cannon fire and those who were trying to fix the cannon were killed in their attempts to do so. That's right!
I thank Brainz.org's web site for information on this story. You see, you learn something new every day.
Until next time, bloggers....
