Colour tattoo of a cartoon baby elephant reading a red book with musical notes above its trunk, on the top of a foot.

Baby elephant reading a book on a foot

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A cartoon baby elephant sits and reads an open red book, with two musical notes floating above its raised trunk. The linework is black and fairly bold, with soft pink and grey shading on the ears, body and book. The design sits on the top of a bare foot against a dark background, with the subject centred and clearly visible.

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The baby elephant came over the orchard wall the week the Bramleys started dropping, with a red book tucked under one ear and no notion of how he had got there. Mrs Okafor from the cottage with the blue gate saw him first and went back indoors for a chair, because it seemed rude to let a guest stand.

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Pim sat down under the old Discovery tree, opened the book across his knee, and read aloud to the apples. Nobody had taught him letters. The words came out slowly at first, then faster, and where a word was too long for his breath he hummed it instead, and the hum rose into two small notes that drifted up past the branches. The pickers' children stopped climbing to listen. Their mothers kept picking, but they kept their heads tilted towards the sound.

The book had no ending. The last page was blank, so Pim kept reading the orchard back to itself, naming each tree by its fruit and each row by the weather it had survived. When the first frost came, the apples on the south side tasted sweeter than the north, and the village argued about whether it was the reading or the sun.

Pim went back over the wall on the morning of the frost and left the book open on the gatepost. Nobody in the village could read the last line, which was written in a looping hand that curled like a trunk around a note. The children learned it anyway. Come spring they took turns sitting under the trees with the book open, humming wherever the words ran out.

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