Soulful Child in Cat Costume! red bell gong wheels 1" across at opening

1" across at opening

and later became a stretcher-bearer with the 1st Engineer Regiment

as a handle and take it out berry picking

In good structural shape

but super sweet still

Soulful Child in Cat Costume! red bell gong wheels 1" across at openingThis one makes me want to both laugh and cry every time I look at it, and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void! The texture of the wall upon which this cat costumed child rests their hand so contemplatively to my eye is especially right, as is the flop of the left ear and the white bow at the end of the tail. Kind of amazing. The photograph, which I