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Nineteen crates

Pen-and-wash illustration of nineteen milk crates stacked behind a garden shed with nettles and a bike

Behind the shed there were nineteen milk crates. Nobody knew whose they were. Nobody had ever asked. And nineteen, if you think about it, is quite a lot of crates.

Spread one. Establish the garden, the fence, and the number nineteen.