Traditional-style pin-up illustration of a boxer in a green swimsuit and brown gloves beside a banner reading Momma said knock you out, printed on a steel hip flask.

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Pin-up boxer with banner on a hip flask

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A stylised pin-up woman in a green boxing swimsuit and brown gloves stands in a fighting pose, with a red belt and a red garter strap. A cream banner above her reads Momma said knock you out, and small outlined stars sit around the edges of the design. The artwork uses bold black outlines and flat muted colour on an aged cream background, printed onto a metal hip flask.

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Dear Auntie Pearl,

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The ferry was late again, so I've had three hours on the harbour wall composing this in my head, and I can report that the gulls here have no respect for a woman in her Sunday gloves. Mrs Greig at the boarding house says the island team has been in the ring since Easter and the purse for the summer tournament is twelve pounds and a crate of tinned peaches. I have entered. Don't tell Mother.

Momma said knock you out, and I have decided to take that literally. Her words, not mine. She stood me on the kitchen table when I was nine and made me hit the coal scuttle until my knuckles bled, and the last thing she said before she went to the mill was that a girl who can't defend herself has to rely on the kindness of men, and kindness runs out faster than oil in a lamp. I think about that when the wind comes off the Minch.

The first bout is Saturday, against a fishmonger's daughter called Isla Rennie who has a left hook like a dropped anchor. I have been running the stone track by the lighthouse at five each morning, which has given the lighthouse keeper something new to tell his wife. My trainer, Dougie, says I keep my chin too high. I told him Momma kept hers higher.

If I win, I'll send you the peaches. If I lose, I'll send you the gloves, which are not mine and which I will have to return, so do not get attached to them.

Your loving niece, Nell

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