See No. 15573. Bel sits on the dragon, which advances slowly from 1eft to right, where an officer in Highland uniform awaits him, with his sword extended. Bel has the body of a man, a wolf's head, and ram's horns; he holds out a book: 'Apocrypha—Canon Type', and turns with beckoning talons towards a man (left) who walks forward from the middle distance, carrying a flag inscribed 'Earl Street Association—"I seek no earthly | "emoluments"'. Bel: 'Come along Van Ass! a rich meal awaits us. I famish of hunger, having had nothing since we devoured the L26,ooo, worth in Earl Street'. Behind him on the dragon's back is a box of 'Apocrypha's for Campbell Esq Hond by Idol Bel'. Van Ass: 'Keep quiet on that score, for [me]thinks I spy mine enemy of whom I am sore afraid, he is a host of himself'. He refers to the Highland officer or to Dr. Thomson who stands beside the Highlander, looking at Grey, who kneels, pointing to, and welcoming, Bel and the Dragon. The Highlander: 'Hally! hally! You horrid crew; none of your heresy here! One step farther, and my left arm shall smite thee to the dust! None of your canon Types, nor Spectacles [see No. 15581] are required on our barren heaths!!!!!' Thomson to Grey: 'Take heed lest Thou be with them that fall. I have given thy dragon a bitter peel' [pill]. The 'peel' is a volume of the 'Christian Instructor', in the teeth of the dragon, who says: 'Altho' I hunger much, yet I cannot swallow this acrid morsel!' Grey, with his blandly sinister smile, says to Thomson: 'There they come, whom I worship, you will soon be discomfited! those that are of their train are great nobles, and strong of arm!!' Behind him (1eft) are a serpent, saying, 'Hiss! hiss! at him again ginger!' and a milestone: '1 Mile from Edinr—1828. March; 15 from Haddingto[n]'.  1828
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