第一百六十九篇第一百六十九篇Story One Hundred and Sixty-Nine

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

The Mantis Catches a Snake

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a rocky cliff ledge above a mountain gully in daylight, a lean bearded traveller in a cloth cap and long gown, holding a bamboo staff, leans forward with one hand raised in astonishment, while a huge snake rears up in a willow thicket with a mantis perched on its head and snapped willow branches falling beside it.

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