Black and grey photo of two wrists with small dotwork tattoos, a row of dots with a ringed planet on the left and scattered dots like stars on the right.

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Planet and star dot tattoos on two wrists

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Two wrists are shown side by side, each with a small tattoo made of solid black dots. The left wrist has a horizontal line of graduated dots with two larger circles, one of which is encircled by a thin ring, suggesting a ringed planet. The right wrist has a loose scatter of dots resembling a star field, and the image is entirely black and grey with plain, evenly lit composition.

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Dear Ruth,

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You will think I have gone soft, but the lamp-man's boy has been coming up to the edge of Hollin Wood every evening with a biscuit tin full of pins and a ball of waxed thread, and I have stopped minding. He lays the pins out on the flat stone by the stile in a row, small ones tapering off, then two fat ones with a ring of thread drawn round the second. He says it is the big ringed one from the almanac, and the little ones are its moons. I told him moons were not so tidy. He said the almanac was tidy, so why shouldn't the sky be.

Last Thursday he brought his sister's cardigan pins and scattered the rest across the grass in no order at all. Stars, he called them. He wanted me to join them up into pictures, the way Mr Ashby used to chalk a bear and a plough onto the schoolroom slate. I could not find any of them. I told him the sky was only dots that happened to sit near each other, and he looked at me as if I had let him down.

Then the rain came on and we ran for the cottage, and I found the tin left open on the stile. In the morning there was a single pin standing upright in the mud at the foot of the stile, a little apart from everything, with thread wound round its head. I have not moved it. Come at Easter and see if you can find the pattern. I think he has begun to make one of his own.

Your loving sister, Margaret

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