Twelfth print in the Miseries of Human Life series. Two ladies, fashionable and pretty, stand by the door of a neo-Gothic lodge or gate-house. One addresses a gardener who tugs at his hair; two elderly men (left) walk off to the left. Below: 'The necessity of sending a verbal message of the utmost consequence, by an ass, who, you plainly perceive, will forget (or rather has already) forgotten every word you have been saying.' Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VIII.