| Description | Pen-and-ink drawings with [watercolour?] wash of [left to right, top to bottom]: a boy examining a garden; boy on hands and knees behind a bush; a badger digging; a boy shooting a catapult; a badger with one paw behind its back; a boy running; a boy approaching a badger; a badger rubbing its leg as a boy watches; a boy helping a badger walk off. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "BEN AND BROCK/Ben was very proud of his garden. Then, one day, he found/A lot of bulbs grubbed up.I'll bet it's a badger!/Let fly with his catapult/Ouch!/I hope I haven't killed him/There! there!/My poor leg! I shall be lame for life/You must help me to get home". |