Colour tattoo of a cartoon caterpillar with a blue striped body, blue feathery hair, orange round glasses and a red scarf on the top of a foot.

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Cartoon caterpillar in scarf on a foot

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A cartoon caterpillar character with a blue striped body, a tufted blue plume on its head, large round orange glasses and a red scarf trailing to one side. Soft blended shading gives the figure a rounded, three-dimensional look against the skin. The design sits on the top of the foot, with the body curling toward the ankle.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Don't you go laughing at him, boy. I laughed once, off the Horn, and the sea took my tobacco and my best boots for my trouble. Pass that lamp over so you can see the picture properly.

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He came aboard at Canton in a chest of green tea, curled up like a bit of old rope, with a blue plume on his head that he'd pinched off a parrot which died in the galley. Round orange spectacles too, lifted off the drowned purser before anyone thought to ask. Nobody ever saw him eat. He just talked, slow and thoughtful, in the voice of a schoolmaster who'd given up on the boys.

When the squall hit us in the forties, the mate was bellowing for the topsails and the men were blind in the spray. Pell climbed the mainmast with his red wool scarf streaming behind him like a pennant, and he peered through those great lenses at the sky. Then he called down that the wind would come round to the south-west within the hour, and it did, to the minute. He knew the weather in his stripes, he said, the way you know an old bruise.

At Table Bay he went down the gangplank in the grey morning, scarf wound twice round his middle, and left the spectacles folded on the capstan with a note in a child's hand that said only, 'Mind the step.' Old Hanks kept them on a nail in the galley until the day he died. I've still got that note, if you want to see it.