第一百六十二篇第一百六十二篇Story One Hundred and Sixty-Two

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

The Mouse Show

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a stone-paved market street in an old walled city by day, a lean travelling performer with a sack on his back sings and beats wooden clappers while holding up a tiny roofed stage on which three masked, costumed mice dance and a fourth mouse climbs out of the sack, as a laughing little boy points up, a white-bearded old man with a staff looks on, and a young woman smiles behind a round fan, with shopfronts, a porcelain stall, fruit baskets and a gate tower behind.