Decomposition of the "gallows" characters

[Emma May Smith]

There are many characters on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which look as though they have been reinked. If you look about the first [l] in the vertical sequence, you can see an [sh] which has obviously been written over, though the hook was missed. I'm sure that parts of the manuscript were gone through by the writer and checked for faint letters.