PUDD'NHEAD WILSON ILLUSTRATION Just as Miss Watson sets Jim free in her will after the Widow tries to prevent her from selling him down the river, Roxy is manumitted by Percy Driscoll's will. A month earlier, Percy's brother, Judge Driscoll, "bought Chambers. He had heard that Tom had been trying to get his father to sell the boy down the river, and he wanted to prevent the scandal--for public sentiment did not approve of that way of treating family servants for light cause or for no cause." This is the image which accompanies that text, and which draws a similarly benign picture of slavery: the Judge reaches out to both "Tom" and "Chambers," whose symmetrical postures and identical clothing suggest a family grouping.
  This theme of happy families is echoed in the page's other illustration, of birds flocking together. There is no direct textual basis for the picture, but the margins of Pudd'nhead Wilson contain a number of these pastoral images.
Chapter 4, Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Barrett Collection, UVA
PS 1317 .A1 1894