In the upper margin: 'Variety is Charming'. Below the title: ' 'Tis Nothing When You're Accustom'd To It'. A fashionably dressed and youngish man drives (left to right) a rough makeshift cart; a clumsy horse is attached to the single shaft behind the leaders, a donkey and a bull harnessed abreast; the reins, however, resemble those of a tandem or four-in-hand, and the driver holds a coach-whip. All the animals are blinkered, on the blinkers is a large 'B'. The cart resembles a clumsy plough mounted on four wheels; the driver sits on a chair lashed to two chests inscribed 'Raw Hides No 1', 'Raw Hides No 2'. An up-ended wheelbarrow lashed to the back of the cart forms a dickey in which sits a boy holding up a placard on a post: 'Highest price for—Old Bones—Carrion, dead Dogs or Donkies, bought sold, or exchang'd. No Credit given'. By the leaders' heads (right) is a signpost on which sits an amused owl; it points (left) 'To Newtownards, Mile-cross Grey Abbey' [W. Montgomery's place, see BM Satires No. 16231] and (right) 'To Belfast [and] Carrickfergus'. By the roadside (right) is a stone: [blank] 'to Mile Cross'. In the middle distance is a small town on the shores of a bay, backed by hills.  1830
<br>Hand-coloured lithograph
1830<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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