Farm-Yard Study
D M *
Genre: | Illustration, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
Illustrators: | D M * |
Subjects: | Animal Husbandry, Breeding, Animal Development |
Shows a young boy 'exercising the prize pig' in a farmyard, with the farmer looking proudly on. The pig is so obese, however, that its limbs have virtually disappeared into its torso and it can only walk because of the stilts attached to its limbs. |
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