Small black outline tattoo of a cartoon elephant with its trunk curled and one front leg raised, on the ankle.

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Small outline elephant on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small cartoon elephant is drawn in single black outline on the side of a foot, with its trunk curled and one front leg raised. The linework is thin and even, and the body is left unshaded, with only a small area of the ear filled in. The image is a close, slightly angled shot of the ankle on a light background, with a ring visible on a toe.

Fine line Ankle Elephant Animal Cartoon

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The elephant had been drawn in a single unbroken line, which Mrs Pardoe said was the only honest way to draw anything. Her grandson had tried shading its belly with a pencil, and she had made him rub it out with a heel of bread. So when the ferry clerk on the North Pier asked why the little beast was always lifting one foot, she told him it was waving at the sea, which was the sort of answer that kept a clerk quiet for a week.

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By October the elephant had grown restless. It curled its trunk at the gulls, sat on the ticket counter and would not be moved, and once, when the tide came in too high for the lifeboat, it was found standing on the top step of the slipway with one ear half filled in, as if someone had started to colour it and thought better of the idea. The harbourmaster wrote a note about it in the logbook. The note said only: Elephant, unlicensed, returned to dry land.

Nobody could say who had lent it the ink. Mrs Pardoe certainly never had, and her grandson was in Leeds by then, learning to be a surveyor. The clerk, Mr Ashdown, who had never owned a pen that did not leak, sat up one wet evening and found the elephant on the back of the tide table, lifting its foot as though it had been waiting all summer for someone to be ready to listen.

He drew a small wave beneath it in one stroke. The elephant stepped off the page, crossed the margin, and walked the length of the calendar until it reached the following Thursday, where it stopped, raised its foot, and waited for the tide to turn.