Mary Helen King's Wonderful "Hard Word Dictionary" with Hand-written Definitions and Drawings, 1940 queen breeder so perhaps he was modeled

so perhaps he was modeled after one of those--this guy painted chalkware

with an embossed stamp at the upper left edge of the paper

in the original appearing to be pulling at blades of grass

forms a hard

It looks to me like the red ribbon could be removed if desired--or used to hang it

Mary Helen King's Wonderful "Hard Word Dictionary" with Hand-written Definitions and Drawings, 1940 queen breeder so perhaps he was modeledThis one arrived in the mail when I really needed some cheering up, and a cheer up it delivered and continues to deliver every time I look at it. I wish I had the pleasure to know the Mary Helen King who created it how not to like a girl who took it upon herself to create a "Hard Word Dictionary"? And the fact that she was not a terribly accomplished draw er did not slow her down, except when it came to "Monkey," where, in lieu of an illustration, she