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Cat and dog in a single line drawing

Fine line · Black and grey · Flash

A black line drawing shows a seated cat in profile on the left, with its tail curling along the base, and a dog's head and upper body in profile on the right. The linework varies in thickness and reads as one continuous stroke, with no shading. The image is in black and white on a plain white background, with the two animals overlapping and filling most of the frame.

Fine line Cat Dog Animal Line art Profile Pet

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cat had been aboard the Marigold for three weeks before the dog came up the gangplank, and by then she had already claimed the warm place beside the galley stove and the crusts off the cook's bench. Mrs Abernethy, who kept the ship's books and most of the crew's secrets, said the animals would have to settle it between themselves, and that was the end of the matter as far as the captain was concerned.

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The dog was called Tobin and he was no use at mousing. He spent his days at the bow with his nose into the wind, watching the grey water fold over itself. The cat watched him from the coil of rope by the mainmast, tail wrapped round her feet, and neither of them made a sound. Off the Azores a squall tore the foresail loose. The crew went up the rigging in the dark, and Tobin, who could not climb, ran the length of the deck barking until the mate, Halloran, came up with a lantern and swore at him.

When the sail was secured and the sea had quietened, the cat was found wedged in the scuppers under the bowsprit, soaked to the skin and yowling. Tobin lay down beside her and did not move, and in the morning Halloran found them there still, the dog's head on his paws and the cat's tail curled over his back like a rope someone had forgotten to coil.

By the time they raised the Channel lights they had worn a single path between the bow and the galley door, and nobody aboard could say afterwards which of them had made it first.