The brain-sucker, or The miseries of authorship [graphic].
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A thin, worn-out author sits at his table under the window in his small garret in the attic. He leans his chin on his hand as he writes with his quill pen. A thin dog sits at his feet. A robust man (a bailiff?) with a cane confronts him presumably with bills. His bed is folded up against the wall