Cartoon of a grocer and a boy. A bald, middle-aged grocer, wearing a shirt with rolled up sleeves and a waistcoat, stands with arms akimbo behind a counter. On the right is a boy, viewed in profile wearing a scottish cap, who stands beside a basket of apples and counts with two pointed fingers on his right hand. Drawn in pen and ink, with nibs of various sizes, with hatching and some cross hatching