The snake enters into an argument with the frog, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-sixth Night
A snake with a yellow body and brown spots faces a green frog on a black rocky outcropping. The rocky outcropping is surrounded by purple, orange and gray boulders. A tree grows from a boulder on the left. The illustration is bordered by gold, red and blue lines on beige paper. Black script in a foreign language, possibly Arabic, is written above the illustration.
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