| Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of [top to bottom, left to right]: a badger walking through a door as another sweeps the floor to the right; a badger pulling a metal [bed frame] through the door as the other takes her hat off; one badger in bed as another climbs in; a badger sitting up in bed as the other sleeps; a badger pulling open a door as the other gets out of bed; and a badger in a nightcap being handed a stick by a badger in a woman's hat. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "Ben + Brock/It's too late to search for Ben tonight I'll see what I can find to sleep on/Look! I've got the bed and some blankets and our suitcase too/I wonder what became of the smugglers. Can they have made off with Ben?/Hark! What's that moanin' noise?/It's outside there!/Take your big stick, just in case". There are a variety of [printers' instructions?] in the margins, some partly obscured by the mount. |