Second print in the Miseries of Human Life series. Two elderly men, and four ladies, two very fat, are scattered over miry ground, some ankle-deep, and without shoes. One man holds his shoe, a young woman retrieves one from the mud. Four scampering pigs, beset by a dog, and two hissing geese, suggest a farm-yard. Wind aggravates the disaster; an umbrella is blown inside out, a hat and wig fly upwards. One woman has reached a gate (right) to which she clings. Below: 'While you are out in a walking-party, after heavy rains – one shoe (suddenly sucked off by the boggy clay; and then, in making a long and desperate stretch (which fails,) with the hope of recovering it, the other left in the same predicament:- the second stage of ruin is that of standing, or rather tottering in blank despair, with both bare feet planted ancle deep, in the quagmire.' Description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VIII.