“Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.”

"The Unicorn in the Garden", The New Yorker (31 October 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

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American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961

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