Colour traditional tattoo of an otter wearing red sunglasses, draped over a banner reading Otterly Ridiculous, on a thigh.

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Otter in red sunglasses over a banner

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A traditional-style tattoo shows an orange and brown otter in red sunglasses, its body draped diagonally across two horizontal banners with the words OTTERLY RIDICULOUS in black capitals. Dark blue ribbon tails extend behind the banners. Bold black outlines and flat, solid fills are used, with some soft shading on the otter's belly and limbs, against a slightly pink skin tone.

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Mabel Tarrant had told the otter three times that the ferry was not a shelter, and three times he had slipped back under the jetty with his paws folded and his red spectacles pushed up his nose, as if he had not heard. On the fourth morning she gave up and let him climb into the stern, where he sat with a dignity that could only be called ridiculous.

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Nobody at Hollin Weir knew where he had come from. Old Ned Parry swore he had walked out of the reed beds the summer the footbridge fell in, carrying a strip of blue silk in his teeth and a pair of spectacles that had belonged to a county surveyor nobody had seen since. He wore them to read the tide tables pinned to the lock gate, and he would not be hurried over them. The village said the spectacles made him wise. Mabel said they made him look like a bank manager who had lost a bet.

When the water came over the weir in March, the ferry was the only boat left on the valley side, and Mabel found herself steering it across the brown flood with the otter at the bow, one paw hooked round the rope and his lenses flashing in the lamplight. Halfway over he turned, looked back at the shouting bank, and lifted his chin as though the whole business was perfectly ordinary.

They reached the far side with two sacks of flour, a goat and one wet curate. Afterwards the blacksmith painted two banners across the lock gate and wrote on them what everyone had been thinking, and the otter, when he came up the bank to inspect the work, looked pleased with himself for a week.

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