Baby Blue Ran Into The Water.
Baby Blue ran into the water, but never having been near any water except that in the drinking trough in the lot, she knew nothing about a lake or deep water, and before she knew it she stepped into a hole and under she went.
COWS AND CALVES.
Written by Frances Trego Montgomery.
Illustrations by Hugo Von Hofsten.
Barse & Hopkins Publishers: New York. 1912.
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Illustrations like this are incredibly similar to British illustration… I woonder which side of the atlantic influenced the other?
Maybe it was “the style” rather than a location?
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