The Squire and his Cur. A farmer tells the squire that his aggressive dog Yap is the reason people avoid him. They stand before a tall gate near a walled house. 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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