Cousin Reginald Plays Tickly Bender
by Norman Rockwell

January 19, 1918 Issue of The Country Gentleman

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Cousin Reginald Plays Tickly Bender, this Norman Rockwell painting, appeared on the cover of The Country Gentleman published January 19, 1918.

The alternate title is Boys Ice Skating.

This was the eighth cover in the popular Cousin Reginald series.

This illustration was also the eighth Country Gentleman cover by Norman Rockwell. Rockwell painted thirty-three covers for The Country Gentleman starting in August 1917, with the first Cousin Reginald cover, and continuing through April 1922.

Cousin Reginald Plays Tickly Bender

With this illustration, Norman Rockwell finally lets us see Reginald Claude Fitzhugh get the better of his country cousins.

In this winter scene, Reginald, his cousin Tubby Doolittle, Chuck Peterkin and Patsy the dog are playing on the ice. The game they are playing is called Tickly Bender. The object is to go out on the ice as far as you dare without falling through.

The ice has already cracked. Reginald and Patsy are running off the ice. They have no desire to get wet or cold. Chuck is still buckling his skates over his shoes. Chuck is laughing at Tubby.

Poor Tubby is far out enough on the ice that he will undoubtedly be wet and cold soon. The look on his face is priceless. He has dropped his makeshift hockey stick and is trying to back slowly but swiftly off the ice.

Slowly but swiftly?

Will Tubby make it .

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Norman Rockwell's Cousin Reginald Plays Tickly Bender (1918) Copyright © 1918 The Country Gentleman and Curtis Publishing Company

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