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Mice

from The Game of Hope, c. 1799

Die Maeuse. A mouse sits on a stone pedestal gnawing at something red, usually taken for sausages. Insets: seven of acorns and seven of clubs. Theft and slow loss, the nibbling away of what you have; one of the small vivid scenes that kept its meaning intact for two centuries.

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