I won’t say this illustration of poem #7 in The Annotated Mother Goose, “When I was a little boy”, is another dud, but it did not inspire at all.

The only things I can say about it, beyond filling in the basic specs of the rhyme, is since I know nothing about childhood in historical England (beyond it being an invention of the Victorians) this is the first sketch where I didn’t even try to keep in period.

Also I threw in the mouse as a desperate attempt to keep things interesting.

Nursery Rhyme Sketch Challenge, - "When I was a little boy"