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Crowned heart design flash
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The design shows a crown with three points and small round finials above a face with two round, bold eyes. Below the face, two heart-like shapes with curled, interlocking edges form the lower half of the figure. The artwork uses solid black fills with no shading or grey tones, on a plain white background.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Dear Ada, the lock keeper at Coldharbour says the frog is back on the lock beam. Three days now, sat on the cill with his little tin crown squared on his head, glaring at every boat that comes up through the gates as if he were the one collecting tolls. Your father would have had something to say about that. I told the lockie it was bad luck to shift him, and he laughed and said the frog had been there before the lock was cut.
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The hearts are the trouble. He has two of them tucked under him like a pair of cushions, and the boys from the timber yard swear they knock together when the water rises. I haven't seen it myself. I have only seen the water come up over the cill to the second rung of the ladder, and the frog sitting there dry as a biscuit.
Thursday we tied up below the bridge and I rowed out with the bread and a jar of the blackberry jam you like. I left it on the bank. He looked at it, then at me, and I swear he tipped that crown like a magistrate. I said, you can keep your heart, I only want my barge back. Then the wind came round and the gates groaned, and I stood there with the rope in my hands feeling a fool.
Come up at Easter, if the water allows. Bring the good kettle. I'll show you the frog, and you can tell me whether he is a prince or only a very proud fish.
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