the class-o-matic

I've forgotten the artist's name.... The book was rare, I believe,
but all I have left is this frontispiece, and the final leaf. From a favorite children's
book, early the last century (c-1900's).

It is wonderful to see how with just a simple shift of line, a creature, a sense
of place or time, can be brought so vividly to life.

things don't always have to be complicated