His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops

What is the meaning of "straggled up and down the page" and "shed"

Question

His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops

What is the meaning of "straggled up and down the page" and "shed"

Answer

To straggle is to move in an uncontrolled or messy way. So his writing was messy. To shed is to lose hair like a dog sheds it's winter hair. In this sentence they use it to show his writing slowly got worse as he stopped using capital letters and full stops.

Answer

It's to show he wasn't writing in straight lines