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It’s sometimes hard to explain a joke or a cartoon. Oftentimes the New Yorker cartoons are just plain funny, but other times they exhibit  satire or sarcasm,  or just another way to look at the world.

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Bob Bridte is the winner.  I love his analysis (below.)  I suspect he is from NYC where parents as in the cartoon try to find creative ways to protect their kids. But those who know New York know how brave and smart those city kids can be.

“A daughter is growing up, but the parents still worry about her being out and about alone…so they prefer her to be accompanied when out on the streets….so here we see her, walking, perhaps singing to herself, and the parents have implemented full ‘accompaniment’ with a quartet walking behind her. She is now ‘accompanied’! It’s a tall order, so they question if they need do it much longer….”

I was attracted to the imagery of the cartoon. You can imagine this school girl walking happily with a quartet behind her.  It is a parental wish fulfilled when a child’s world is propelled by music.

I was reminded of the line from the poem    “…with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes.”*  Would it be that she could have music her whole life.   —–Paul @Blogfinger.

We will put Bob in contact with Jack Spratt  (aka Jack Bredin) for the prize.

*From an English poem:

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
And she shall have music wherever she goes.^[2]

Mary Ann Campbell: