Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of [top to bottom]: a boy looking at a [drawing?] on a wall as a badger sits in a chair smoking a pipe; a boy walking down stairs behind a badger with a candle, past a sign reading "Til familie-Ejen-dommen" [the published English version has "to the Ancestral Caves"]; a badger showing a boy an array of stalagtites and stalagmites. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "That map! It is a plan of the estate made by my grandfather/Now my leg is better I can show you round". There are a variety of [printers' instructions?] in the margins. |