A watercolour and pen and ink illustration, the composition in portrait format, showing Aunt Pettitoes holding two buckets and her piglets eating from a trough within a field. The illustration varies slightly from the illustration used in The Tale of Pigling Bland; Aunt Pettitoes wears a plain rather than patterned apron, the position of the piglets is slightly different, there are variations in the use of tone and the viewpoint allows for more space around the characters with more sky and foreground grass.