A simple but effective social satire by Gillray, showing a table of elderly figures enjoying a glass of port and being regaled with an entertaining tale. The speaker, a portly man in a brown coat to the right, seems as amused by his own story as his audience, a twinkle in his eye and his left hand gesturing as he hunches in his chair. To his right, and with his back to the viewer, a parson grins widely. To his left, an older women in a bonnet stares amused. The final two members of the party are an officer in uniform and another bonneted lady, in her cups and nodding. The officer's smile is so broad as to border on grotesque, though he seems far more amused by his port-blushed neighbour than the story itself. BM Satires 8753