Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a pug's face with a diamond pattern across the forehead, placed on the calf.

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Pug face tattoo on a lower leg

Dotwork · Calf · Black and grey · Photo

A stylised pug face fills the frame, with solid black ears and a diamond pattern across the forehead. The face is built from stippled dotwork shading on the muzzle and cheeks, with bold outlines around the eyes and nose. The tattoo is shown in black and grey on a lower leg, with a blurred indoor background.

Dotwork Geometric Calf Pug Dog Portrait Diamond pattern Animal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Now sit down, the lot of you, and mind the wasps, because the windfalls are thick under the Bramleys this time of year. My grandfather knew a pug called Biscuit who belonged to old Mrs Haddow at the end of Pennyfield Lane. He had a face like a Sunday roast left out too long, all folds and solemn disappointment, and two black ears like folded velvet. He could not fetch a ball to save his life, but he could find a bruised apple in the long grass from three rows off, and he would carry it back in that squashed mouth without marking the skin.

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Every harvest Mrs Haddow wore a diamond-patterned cardigan her mother had knitted, and when the sun came low through the Cox trees it laid the same pattern across the grass, red and gold and dark. Biscuit would stand in the middle of it with his nose up, as if he were taking the register of every tree in the orchard and marking which ones were late.

The year she went into the hospital in Gloucester, the orchard was sold to men with clipboards who wanted the land for houses. Tom Garrow, who picked for her every autumn, went up to the gate with the dog at his heel and asked them politely to wait until the fruit was in. They waited. Biscuit did not. He lay down across the gateway with his chin on his paws and would not be moved by shouting or by sausages, and in the end the men drove away to look at another field.

Biscuit lived four more winters under the old trees. When he died, Tom buried him at the top of the orchard, where the light still falls in diamonds at teatime. And every September, if you walk down to the gate at dusk, you will find one apple on the path, bruised just so, and nobody in Pennyfield will tell you who leaves it. Pass me that jug, now, and mind the wasps.