Second in a series of six drawings depicted the Aesop Fable about the man with two wives but acted out by chickens instead. In this picture, one wife objects to the husband's white feathers, and the objects to his black feathers. Drawn on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps. Ranstead was one of many soldiers of WWI who took up drawing as a hobby. His subjects range from wartime humour to pictures of pretty girls and are clearly influenced by images in the illustrated magazines of the period.