Traditional colour tattoo on a calf showing a bearded figure with a raised hand, a bent dark-haired figure and a red horned devil in front of a rainbow arc.

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Bearded figure, red devil and rainbow on a calf

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A bearded figure with grey hair and a white robe raises one hand, while a dark-haired figure in white clothing is bent forward beside a red horned figure. A rainbow arc sits behind the figures, filling the background of the design. Bold black outlines and flat areas of colour are used throughout, with the rainbow shaded in soft gradients against the skin.

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Dear Tom, the thaw hasn't come and neither has your postal order, so I'm writing instead of worrying. The devil came up the lane on Tuesday, stamping through the drifts as if he owned the road, and asked Father for a bed for the night.

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Father did what Father does. He stood in the yard with his hand up, the way he did when the bull got loose, and said the words over him. The devil only shook the snow off his horns and laughed. 'Eli Harrow, I've heard that blessing from better men than you, and they all ended up asking me for the kettle.' Then he sat on the mounting block and waited, bold as brass.

By Thursday the ice had split the trough and the ewes were bawling. The devil would not be turned out, so he took Joss by the collar, sent him down to the beck with two buckets, and then carried the second one himself because Joss was slow on the frozen stones. Nobody asked what he wanted for it. I think he was only bored.

Last night he slept in the straw with one horn hooked through the hay rack. This morning he'd gone, and the lamp was lit in the kitchen window, trimmed and warm. Father says the devil is a poor guest but a fair farmhand. I don't know what to make of that, but the water's hot and I've stopped asking. Come at Easter if the roads are clear. Nell.

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