Lemons and oranges go to make up this splendid float of the Hermit Rat" who rejects the pleas for help of his fellow rats. He is holed up and happy in a Dutch cheese!

The unusual thing about this set is the coloration of the photographs. The picturing of the dreaming of the milkmaid in the upper left corner of the card seems so similar to what I have seen in other postcard series of MM. Thils sries of five cards completes the narrative of this fable. Might there be a sixth presenting La Fontaine's following comment on the normal human habit of wishful daydreaming?

At the top of the picture side of this card is "Choix de Fables." It is extremely similar to a postcard in the series Collection Charier. Indeed, the verso of this card reads "Bons Points Instructifs: Collection C. Charier" above the text of La Fontaine's fable. The image here, as in Collection Charier, includes a tombstone-like tableau for listing both "Fables de La Fontaine" and the fable's title.