_Second state_--The two words, "the whole," in the inscription, scratched over with black lines; the drapery, stockings, etc. on the table before Richard Slim made much darker; the hand of the fat old woman, close to the candidate, removed from under her apron, and hanging down by her side, by which the shoulder, elbow, etc. are thrown out of drawing; her countenance less clear, and a single tooth, very conspicuous in the first impression, is here removed. Shadow on the top of the wainscot in the left corner effaced. Half a casement near the painting of a landscape changed to a window-shutter; the king's head, frame, and background behind it, lighter; the salt-cellar and bit of bread removed from the table; lemons taken out, and the tub, pail, and foreground below them much lighter; the boy's napkin darker. The butcher's cap, in which was "For our Country," has now "PRO PATRIA," and is not striped; the open-back chair in which he was seated in the _first state_, is here filled up to a cushion back. The words, "sure votes" and "doubtful," in the attorney's book, are re-engraved. Both leaves are shadowed, and the centre line from top to bottom, which in the _first state_ was with the "sure votes," is here transferred to the "doubtful." Two pearly drops are trickling from the parson's forehead. Four windows are added to a house seen out of the open casement; a pair of scissors suspended to the Methodist tailor's apron-string, and the pen, stuck under the wig of the fellow who offers him a bribe, which in the _first state_ was with the feather outwards, is now properly altered to the quill outwards. There are several other little variations in the shadows which seem generally intended to bring the print into harmony; and I think have their effect, for it is more still, and in better keeping than in the _first state_. _Third state_--The cross strokes of the graver on the words "the whole," in the inscription, nearly burnished out. One hat added in the corner, and another placed on the bench near the scabbard and gloves. The face, knot, etc. of the little girl near the candidate darkened; and the hair of the fellow smoking him much shadowed, and rendered less woolly. Character of face of the boy pouring punch altered, and hair made much darker. _Fourth state_--The words "the whole" again inserted; the W is different, and engraving not so good as in the _first state_: the shadow on the top of the wainscot, close to the landscape, again restored. A strong shadow on the lower part of the round table in the corner burnished down. _Fifth_, which is the _present state_--The words "the whole" again completely effaced by black lines. The masses somewhat stronger, and the shadows on the round table in the corner, especially on the edge, made darker. I have this print in all the states here described, and believe that the third and fourth are very uncommon.