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To escape forest fires they enter a volcanic Cavern. Are helped out of cave, trap by Blengiglomenean Createns. / PERSUED BY FOREST FIRES, PROVING THE BIGNESS OF THE CONFLARRATION IT IS 40 MILES AWAY AND ADVANCING FAST. / How when they were put in a rat infested cell, they by using the rats and even a few mice they caught they managed to escape after being persued and hounded. (double-sided)

Artist Henry Darger ((1892–1973))

DateMid-20th century

Place/RegionChicago, Illinois, United States

MediumWatercolor, pencil, and carbon tracing on pieced paper

Dimensions19 × 70 1/2"

Credit LineMuseum purchase © Kiyoko Lerner

Accession number2000.25.1A

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