The Ant in Office. A corrupt ant at the ministry of grain is exposed as an embezzler. Ants climb over the farmyard wall, while a farm maid feeds turkeys in the yard. Copperplate engraving by Peter Mazell after an illustration by Hubert Francois Bourguignon Gravelot from Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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