Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings sky The Band of Hope referred

The Band of Hope referred to here is a temperance organization for working-class children founded in Leeds in 1847

weighted with chunks of wood at either end

the phrase: "Trying never hurt anyone

they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth--and/or maybe it just took him that long to get around to it

even more so when emitting a trail of smoke and accompanied by a two-toned green book of matches tipped in orange

Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings sky The Band of Hope referredFour drawings total here, shown across the first and second photos the first the largest and the other three postcard sized. Together they portray adventures of Ned and Fred and Ellis: heading to the woods with a cart full of apple tree knots (which Ned alone seems to have chopped), burying a skunk, and chauffeuring a cow while a cat runs along beside them, and then a big question mark begging the question of what came next!? Seems perhaps the work of