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in this print by shigemasa of an old woman pounding rice with a tanuki over, the text above surely explains the scene. can you translate or summarize it

The first line of the story has been cut off.
From the second line,
...he got home,thinking he'd make raccoon soup, he
tied the raccoon dog up and hung it on the veranda.
The the old man went out into the fields again.
Wile he was away the grandma started to grind wheat.The raccon dog saw that the grandmother was tired from grinding wheat and offered to help her. The kind-hearted grandmother untied the raccoon dog's ropes, and then it attacked and killed her.

Regards,
I.Nagy

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