第一百四十二篇第一百四十二篇Story One Hundred and Forty-Two

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Story One Hundred and Forty-Two · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Eyeless Dragon

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: In a muddy open field outside a county town after heavy rain, a magistrate in official hat and robe bows with clasped hands at a sacrificial table set with candles, an incense burner and a pig's head, while a clerk behind him holds up burning incense and a runner at the right braces with a long pole, all watching a huge dragon whose body lies under overlapping straw mats and whose scaly tail rises high at the right and splashes the mud, with low hills and a town wall in the distance.