The Jackall, Leopard and Other Beasts. A jackal usurps the crown by bribing a hog with a turnip, fox with chicken, monkey with fruit. A leopard reveals the corruption. 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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