Vila Wolf's Dyslexic Folklorist Ranting

The street of the clothes sellers, Zhangjiakou.

Édouard Vaumort, from Le tour du monde Paris, Leipzig, London, 1864.

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Upon a sudden issued forth this sound From out one of the tombs; wherefore I pressed, Fearing, a little nearer to my Leader. (Inferno, Canto X)

Yan’ Dargent, from La divine comédie by Dante Alighieri, Paris, 1870.

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And Graffiacan, who most confronted him, Grappled him by his tresses smeared with pitch, And drew him up, so that he seemed an otter. (Inferno, Cant XXII)

Yan’ Dargent, from La divine comédie by Dante Alighieri, Paris, 1870.

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Central aircraft station at Notre-Dame.

From Le Vingtième Siècle, written and illustrated by Albert Robida, Paris, 1883.

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Aerostat “Le Comte d’Artois”

From Les aérostats, by Louis Figuier, Paris, 1887.

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Gay-Lussac and Biot carrying out experiments in physics from a height of 4,000 meters.

François-Constant Mès, From Les aérostats, by Louis Figuier, Paris, 1887.

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The Two Bulls And The Frog.

J-J. Grandville, from Fables de La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine, Paris, 1855.

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The King, The Kite, And The Falconer.

J-J. Grandville, from Fables de La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine, Paris, 1855.

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The Rabbits ( An Address To The Duke De La Rochefoucauld).

J-J. Grandville, from Fables de La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine, Paris, 1855.

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The Spider and the Swallow.

J-J. Grandville, from Fables de La Fontaine book 12, by Jean de La Fontaine, Paris, 1855.

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Snatching the baby.

L. Cornillier (?), from Causes célèbres de tous les peuples (Famous cases of all peoples), by Armand Fouquier, Paris, 1858.

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… Those old portraits of old kings, That watch the sleepers from the wall.

W. St. John Harper, from The day dream, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, illustrated under the supervision of George T. Andrew. New york, circa 1885.

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How say you? We have slept, my lords. My beard has grown into my lap.

From The day dream, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, illustrated under the supervision of George T. Andrew. New york, circa 1885.

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How Arthur gat his sword Excalibur.

Alfred Kappes, from The boy’s King Arthur, edited by Sidney Lanier, after sir Thomas Malory’s history, New York, 1880.

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How sir Turquine bare sir Ector clean out of his saddle.

Alfred Kappes, from The boy’s King Arthur, edited by Sidney Lanier, after sir Thomas Malory’s history, New York, 1880.

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The combat of Mordred and King Arthur.

Alfred Kappes, from The boy’s King Arthur, edited by Sidney Lanier, after sir Thomas Malory’s history, New York, 1880.

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Queen Guenever’s peril.

Alfred Kappes, from The boy’s King Arthur, edited by Sidney Lanier, after sir Thomas Malory’s history, New York, 1880.

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