Little Rascals

The boys lean back to back against a lopped trunk, a jug and a dark jacket hooked over its stub. The redhead, in a pink shirt and grey trousers, balances an open book on his knee with one hand pushed into his hair. His companion, in a grey shirt and terracotta trousers, has tipped his hat brim over his face and pulls a bare foot toward him. Fruit, nuts and a curled gilt-edged sheet lie across the white ground.