第四百九十三篇第四百九十三篇Story Four Hundred and Ninety-Three

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Story Four Hundred and Ninety-Three · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Dormant Snake

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in daytime in an old cattle pen against a rocky hillside, a small boy with two hair tufts floats in mid-air with arms spread and eyes closed, smiling, while a bearded scholar in a square cap peers astonished from a mud-brick wall corner and a large snake raises its head from a rock crack at the right, beside a fence, a feeding trough and strewn straw.

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