Third print in the Miseries of Human Life series. A skating scene. A man with legs widely spread, poised on the back of his skates, throws up his arms and is about to crash backwards; his hat flies in the air. Beside him (left) a man falls through the ice. A young man pushing a woman in a chair, absorbed in the falling man, is about to propel her into the hole. A stout man staggers wildly on one heel, kicked by a military officer (right) skating rapidly to the right. A little boy with a broom grins at the disasters. In the background (left) under a bare wind-swept tree, a man sits to have his skates adjusted. Two women look on. Below: 'In Skaiting – slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccommodating posture – from which, however you are soon relieved by falling forwards on your nose or backwards on you skull. – Also learning to cut the outside edge, on skates that have no edge to cut with – ice very rugged.' Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VIII.