Recognising and knowing how to understand visual imagery in relation to a narrative in picture books is primarily a matter of immersion in books within a specific culture.
This was a period in which the ideas of witchcraft had caught fast hold of the minds of mankind; and those accusations which, by the enlightened part of the species, would now be regarded as worthy only of contempt, were then considered as charges of the most flagitous nature.
As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.