Fine line outline of a small elephant tattooed on the side of a finger, shown against a dark background.

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Small elephant on a finger

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A small elephant in a single-line outline sits along the side of a finger, facing left with its trunk lowered. The linework is thin and even, with no shading, and the ink is dark grey-black against pale skin. The tattoo is centred on the finger, with the rest of the hand and a second finger softly out of focus on a near-black background.

Fine line Hand Elephant Animal Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Ada, forgive the smudges on this paper. We are three days out from Lisbon and the galley copper has not stopped steaming since Tuesday, so I am writing with flour on my fingers and a pencil stub I borrowed from the bosun. Mr Okonedo, who keeps the stores, found something in the bottom of the sugar tin this morning and would not tell anyone where it came from.

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It was a pewter elephant no longer than my smallest finger, its trunk dropped low as if it were sniffing the deck for crumbs. Someone had scratched a tiny line along its flank with a nail. Okonedo set it on the chopping board between us and we both pretended not to look at it for the length of a whole pot of tea.

Here is the odd part. Young Pell, the purser's boy, swore on his mother that he had won it off a dockside stall in Mombasa and lost it at cards to a man from Glasgow, who in turn lost it to me, though I have no memory of playing cards with anyone since Christmas. Nobody aboard owns an elephant, and nobody will own up to bringing one aboard.

I put it back in the sugar tin this evening, facing the stern where the wake runs back to England. I do not think it wants to go anywhere else. Keep the kettle on for me when I'm home.