Naive Antique Drawing of Two Fishing Children and a Horn Player treen cup it could be worse

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Naive Antique Drawing of Two Fishing Children and a Horn Player treen cup it could be worseThe faces on these children just kill me, as do their hats and collars and bright red stockings! What a gang the three of them are together, the two with fishing poles perched on what appears to be the stone wall of a pond, and the other on this funny diving board like beam extended from the old wooden fence. I love his delicate little hands as they finger the holes and the red tip of his horn, and then the dangling bait at the end of her fishing