| Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of [top to bottom, left to right]: a badger and a boy at a small door; a badger walking down steps to a badger in an apron and shawl; a badger sitting in a chair, with the beaproned badger putting something on its leg and the boy standing by; a boy handing a bowl to a badger in bed; a boy with a basket standing in front of a tray labelled "Fine Løg" [possibly Danish for "Choice Onions": the published English version has "Best Bulbs"]; a boy sitting on a stool next to a badger in a chair with a bandaged leg. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "What will my poor wife say?/What's all the fuss about?/Nothing like a good hot poultice/No slops for me/So something must be done about it/Bulbs! Ah! Make a new man out of me". There are a variety of [printers' instructions?] in the margins. |