When I Was Exactly Minus Nine Years Old

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This was a $.15 Magazine Cover

The artist is Helen Hokinson. She is a member of the 1800 CLUB.

More than 1800 of her illustrations have graced the pages
of New Yorker Magazine.

Sixty-eight of her illustrations appeared on the cover.

My birthday gift to you is two more examples
of Ms. Hokinson's  cover art:
                                                                    

According to New Yorker lore,
when crows flew over
Helen's garden, they
laughed so hard
at her scare crow
that none of
the birds
ever disturbed
what grew there.

Helen Hokinson

The next New Yorker page is here.  ____________________________________________________________________________________