Calvin's High Chair

Yet another artifact of Calvin Shearer's infancy, preserved in the Hobart Historical Society museum.

The display includes a typewritten account of the chair's history.


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The chair is both beautiful and functional.





If this bowl and holder also date back to 1914, it's a miracle they survived the years unbroken.



The rhyme on the left side is one I never heard before:

One, two, three, four, five,
Catching fishes all alive:
Why did you let them go?
Because they bit my finger so.
Which finger did they bite?
The little finger on the right.

The rhyme on the right side I did learn, at least partially, as a child.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe:
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

… That is to say, I remember the first two lines, but somehow I think the last two might have been dropped by the time it reached to me.