Proof positive, or, No deceiving a sailor [graphic]

"A sailor stands by the head of a saddled horse, looking knowingly at a smart ostler (left). The horse is clumsy and misshapen with shaggy fetlocks; it urinates against a stone wall (right). The ostler says, with a superior grin, "I tell you Master Bowling that is the same Horse you brought here." The sailor answers: "You tell me you Lubber! do you think I dont know better than that. I tell you I examined the works - and my vessel was not half so much bent in the bows and the Cabin lights were clearer - but what Grapples the whole is this. My Vessel leaked towards the Midships - and this d'ye see leaks abaft"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state