| Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of [top to bottom]: a badger with a stick in a doorway looking at a badger holding a pot; a badger in a chair with a handkerchief over its head and a badger in an apron and dress looking on; two badgers talking to a policeman in uniform with a badger; two badgers walking down the road: the one on the left has a stick at its feet and a paw over its mouth. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "Meanwhile/Ben is lost! He went down that secret passage/No use moanin! We must go and search for him. Wait till I get me apron off/[at least one word obscured] must notifiy the police/Heavens! I forgot to turn the gas off!". There are a variety of [printers' instructions?] in the margins. |