| Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of [top to bottom, left to right]: a boy and a bug looking at a debris field; a bug falling into a hole as the boy sits against a wardrobe; the boy pulling the bug out of a hole; the bug looking at the hole; the bug holding a euphonium with the boy to its right; the bug playing the euphonium to the boy. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "Ben + Brock/Crumbs! What a mess: but we can't do anything tonight/So we'd better get some sleep. Hullo! What's the matter with you?/What [underlined] are you sitting on?/It's my beloved euphonium/And it still plays/Give us a tune, then". There are a variety of [printers' instructions?] in the margins. |