| Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of [top to bottom, left to right]: a badger pointing a stick at a boy entering a tunnel; a boy turning a corner to a door marked "Smugler Hulen" [in the published English version, "Smugglers Cave"]; a boy being held by an anthropomorphic crab and being confronted by two others; a boy lying bound and gagged at the feet of three anthropomorphic crabs; the anthropomorphic crabs dragging of the boy; the anthropomorphic crabs drinking with the boy lying in the left background. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "Ben + Brock/Hey! Where are you going? That's a secret passage and not safe/This is fun! Wonder what it's like insideNow then! What are you doing down here?/There! That'll teach you to mind yer own business/Take him to the beach while we get on with our job/The smugglers prepare for the day's work amoing the lonely sanddunes". There are a variety of [printers' instructions?] in the margins. |