Hugo Arnot, esq., advocate, and Gingerbread Jock

The accompanying text in the volume begins as follows: "The strange figure of Mr Arnot appears to have been a favourite with Kay, who has here ironically represented him in the act of relieving a beggar, the fact being that he had a nervous antipathy to medicants, and was at all times more disposed to cane them than to give them alms. John Duncan, the beggar here represented, was a poor creature, who, after having long endeavoured to support himself by the sale of gingerbread, sunk into medicancy, which he usually practiced at a corner of the Parliament Square."