g up her eyes and drinking a glass of gin, the very picture
of hypocrisy; and a man indecently helping up a girl into the same cart;
in another, a soldier sunk up to his knees in a bog, and two boys
laughing at him, are well imagined. Here we see one almost squeezed to
death among the horses; there, another trampled on by the mob. In one
part is a girl tearing the face of a boy for oversetting her barrow; in
another, a woman beating a fellow for throwing down her child. Here we
see a man flinging a dog among the crowd by the tail; there a woman
crying the dying speech of Thomas Idle, printed the day before his
execution; and many other things too minute to be pointed out: two,
however, we must not omit taking notice of, one of which is the letting
off a pigeon, bred at the gaol, fly from the gallery, which hastes
directly home; an old custom, to give an early notice to the keeper and
others, of the turning off or death of the criminal; and that of the
executioner smoking his pipe at the top of the gallows, whose position
of indifference betrays an unconcern that nothing can reconcile with the
shocking spectacle, but that of use having rendered his wretched office
familiar to him; whilst it declares a truth, which every character in
this plate seems to confirm, that a sad and distressful object loses its
power of affecting by being frequently seen.

[Illustration: INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

PLATE 11.

THE IDLE 'PRENTICE EXECUTED AT TYBURN.]

INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

PLATE XII.

THE INDUSTRIOUS 'PRENTICE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.

"Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches
and honour." Proverbs, chap. iii. ver. 16.

Having seen the ignominious end of the idle apprentice, nothing remains
but to represent the completion of the other's happiness; who is now
exalted to the highest honour, that of Lord Mayor of London; the
greatest reward that ancient and noble city can bestow on diligence and
integrity. Our artist has here, as in the last plate, given a loose to
his humour, in representing more of the low part of the Lord Mayor's
show than the magnificent; yet the honour done the city, by the presence
of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is not forgotten. The variety of
comic characters in this print serves to show what generally passes on
such public processions as these, when the people collect to gratify
their childish curiosity, and indulge their wanton disposition, or
natural love