Big Nose (ii)



























Here we see a masked prisoner-slave in the public stocks being tormented and teased by his betters. Two young women are tormenting him with their socks. One, wearing gloves, is crouching down whilst holding up a pair of her sweaty, used socks to his conk-masked* face and is asking him how he is liking the smell through his big nose? Is the stink of her socks tart and vinegary enough for him?

At the same time, another bright young woman rests her sneakered and socked foot on the wooden beam of the stocks directly beneath his kneeling face, so that he can breathe in her rubbery sneaker aroma through his great big conk whilst admiring her scrunched-up, grey socktops!

The two girls' activities are being gleefully watched over by the prisoner-slave's gaoler and by the elderly magistrate master-sir who put the slave in this predicament. The magistrate master-sir is also accompanied by his lovely girlfriend. The irony, perhaps, is that all three of these onlookers probably have the biggest noses of all! But they, of course, are not having to sniff sweaty sock through their superior noses!

*conk-mask - a humiliating mask comprising a big, elongated nose and worn by slaves and prisoners to make them look even more ridiculous

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