Black and grey stag head with long antlers and a crown, tattooed on the thigh of a person in dark shorts who holds their clothing with both hands.

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Stag wearing a crown on a thigh

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The tattoo shows a stag's head in profile, with long branching antlers and a small crown with pointed tips resting between them. The fur is drawn with fine, directional strokes and soft grey shading, and the outlines are dark and clean. The ink is black and grey, and the tattoo sits on the outer thigh, with the subject's hands and dark clothing framing it.

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The stag came down Coldharbour Lane the morning after the Coronation tea, stepping over the bunting as if it had been asked. Mrs Pargeter swore it was wearing a crown, and by dinner time half of Ashby Mill had agreed with her. I didn't argue. I had seen the paper crown too, the red and gold one from the school hall, its wire twisted round the antlers like bramble round a gate.

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I went after him with my pockets full of bread crusts, which was foolish, because he had never once looked hungry. He walked down past the mill race and stopped at the chalk pit where the water lay still and green. The crown had slipped over one ear. When I got close enough to smell the wet bracken on him, he lowered his head and let me work the wire loose, slowly, one strand at a time, the way Dad taught me to free a rabbit from a snare.

Dad came over the stile with the twelve-bore broken open over his arm. He stopped dead. For a long moment nobody moved. Then he leaned the gun against the hawthorn and took off his cap. "Well," he said. "Somebody's crowned him properly."

The stag lifted his head, looked at the three of us as though we were the ones who had come uninvited, and walked away up the hill towards the woods. I kept the crown. It hangs on our kitchen nail now, one spike bent, and Dad still won't say what he meant by it.

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