. . . But their heavy weights upon the ice, it grieves me to relate,
Were more than it could bear, and so they tumbled in like this!
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Animal Antics
By Louis Wain
Illustration by Matthews.
S. W. Partridge & Co: London. Ca 1900-1910.
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keep it up ^^ =P
How are they gonna get out ? 0.0
Oh, I never thought about them getting out! Let’s hope for a lift off!
Elephant
I like how the three birds on the tree in the background haven’t been moved at all by what is going on 🙂
You noticed! I like those birds too! The birds are just sitting there . . . just the same from the first image to the second! I didn’t think anyone but me would notice . . . yet, you did. Will other people notice? We shall see!
Elephant
I had the feeling that these two were British in origin before checking the credit. There is something about the style of inking and the single tone grey shading that is quite distinctive!
Hi Ho there . . . Kilkaties!
They won’t get out! The vultures are going to pick them off one by one (evil grin). Seriously, I can’t help seeing a reference here to the ‘very thin ice’ these animals tread in their real homelands at the moment. In Kenya, South Africa etc there are real life human vultures hanging about waiting to strike….completely unmoved by the plight of their quarry.
Dark and getting darker! I fear for all the beasts of the world (even myself)!
Elephant
Yes! What are we without the beasts? Just a lost cause.
Too true!
Elephant
So close to home! Every year it seems some ice fisherman crashes through the river down the street where I live, truck and all.
What a chilly experience! Do they get out? Or is it the end of their fishing career?
Elephant
Yes, they got out, but never learn and do it again the next year.
That’s not funny. That seriously looks dangerous! :-)))