Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s singing sticks I am not sure

I am not sure

she is good all ways

)"--with the unknown-ness of one of the subjects seeming directly at odds with the intimacy conveyed in the image

which looks very much like the image of snake to me

Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s singing sticks I am not sureFortuitously, I found this guy in the same spot as the large beware the undertow folk art painting just listedlifeguard to the rescue! And seems to me a lifeguard, with a life preserver to boot, it something we could all use right about now! Pretty cute in his little red shorts, too. A little searching tells me he was made by Grey Iron Casting Co. as part of their American Family at the Beach series, 1940 48. 1 7 8 t. Some paint loss as documented,