The Cook-maid, the Turnspit and the Ox. Nan the kitchen maid threatens a turnspit dog in a farmyard. A bull rebukes him saying a cow's fate is worse. Copperplate engraving by William Grainger 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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