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Four handwritten lines place eyes and Gear at a hundred yards beside death and a nervious system that keeps coming.

The distance gives the fragment the scale of a sighting. The final line describes continued movement after death, with no account of the person or animal involved.

Four handwritten lines record 'The two eyes / The Gear at 100 yards / Dead- The nervious system / Keeps on coming'.

The fragment reads like a field note taken at a distance, moving from eyes and gear to the flat word 'Dead'. Its last line sets bodily reflex against that verdict, and the short unpunctuated lines keep the tone clinical rather than mournful.