British zoology, or tower curiosities

A portly Tower guard dressed in a Beefeater costume (r.) displays a menagerie of caged animals to a group of tourists (l.). In particular he directs their attention to a "wild goose"--an animal with the body and beak of a goose, but with Burdett's face for a head. The tourists gape in surprise at the unassuming goose whose squawkings are little cause for the shock their expressions register. The goose, who calls "Took, Took," invokes the name of Horne Tooke, Burdett's mentor. A portly Tower guard dressed in a Beefeater costume (r.) displays a menagerie of caged animals to a group of tourists (l.). In particular he directs their attention to a "wild goose"--an animal with the body and beak of a goose, but with Burdett's face for a head. The tourists gape in surprise at the unassuming goose whose squawkings are little cause for the shock their expressions register. The goose, who calls "Took, Took," invokes the name of Horne Tooke, Burdett's mentor. Dialogue: Beef Eater: "Now Ladies and Gentlemen, let me call your particular attention to this extraordinary burd, it has been fluttering and croaking about Middlesex and Westminster to the great annoyance of his Majesty's loyal subjects. He is supposed to be of the wild goose kind by most learned men, and was taken after a great deal of trouble and escorted here under a very strong guard." Dialogue: Took. Took. Inscription: Pubd, April 1810 by Walker No. 7 Cornhill Annotation: [John] Horne Tooke (1736-1812)