An Original Pen and Ink Drawing by Harrison Cady for a Thornton Burgess Bedtime Story published in the New York Herald Tribune in 1949. Cady's 'Peter Rabbit' comic strip was launched by the newspaper in 1920, and the artist continued to write and draw the strip for the next three decades. Peter Rabbit, pen & ink on paper, depicting a rabbit wearing trousers and braces, and a striped scarf, sitting on a bank and conversing with a bird perched on the branch of a tree, captioned to lower margin 'Peter pricked up his long ears. "Why are you glad?" he asked.', signed lower right, small brown spot, sheet size 19.2 x 15.5cm (7.5 x 6ins). Includes a photo copy of the newspaper story it was used in. Walter Harrison Cady 1877-1970 was an American illustrator and author, best known for his Peter Rabbit comic strip which he wrote and drew for 28 years. Thornton Waldo Burgess 1874-1965 was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man, after his newspaper column Bedtime Stories. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column. Condition is good.