Edward J. Brown's 1878 Reader, with Drawings polychrome bowl The faces on this one

The faces on this one are especially great

so would have had at least a couple of more mallets

explicitly revealing its construction and also--as the scene seems to depict a return from war

it is just the momentum from their forward motion that causes the arms to swing

made almost entirely of cigar box bits

Edward J. Brown's 1878 Reader, with Drawings polychrome bowl The faces on this oneI could spend way too many hours opening old schoolbooks in search of drawings and have to stop myself, but finding one's like this makes it hard! The book is "The Normal Fourth Reader" published in 1878, and my guess is that Edward J. Brown was its first owner as his name is all over it, included ink stamped in two places, so I'd think the drawings date to around then. And, found in Hampton, NH, where Brown lived, it seems that it never left home! 7