The Barley-Mow and the Dunghill. A farmer leans on a pitchfork looking at a dunghill next to a thatched barley-mow where a farm labourer threshes barley with a flail. Copperplate engraving by William Grainger after an illustration by John Wootton from Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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