Willy

let's seeeee... this one is by a "Reginald Birch", for a story called "The Story of the Song-Sparrow" in a childrens magazine called st. nicholas! i'd assumed the thing in the corner (DE119??) was meant to be some kind of signature, but i guess not haha... (https://archive.org/details/stnicholasserial392dodg/page/884/mode/1up?view=theater)
it seems he was primarily a magazine illustrator and there's not a lot of galleries of his work i could find from googling. there's a bio of him and a small assortment of his works here: https://emuseum.delart.org/people/219/reginald-bathurst-birch/objects