Small realistic tattoo of a striped tabby cat lying on its back with a red collar, placed on the outer thigh.

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Tabby cat tattoo on the thigh

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A small tattoo of a striped tabby cat lying on its side with its head turned up, showing a white chest and a red collar. The linework is fine and the grey and brown stripes are shaded softly to give the cat volume against the plain skin. The tattoo sits near the centre of the frame on a bare thigh, with a red garment and a white trainer visible at the edges.

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Ned Harrow's tabby had no name the pit men agreed on. Some called her Duchess and some called her Sixpence, and Mrs Ormerod at the chapel called her a sinner for sleeping on the coal scuttle. She went where she pleased, which in the village of Shand Bottom meant the pit-head, the sorting shed and the lamp room, where she would lie on her side in the warm ash with her white chest turned to the rafters and her red collar bright as a cut.

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The morning the roof went soft on the Low Seam, she would not come in off the tip. Ned called and called. She lay with her head tipped up toward the wind-shaft, watching something none of them could see, and when the cage bell rang she only blinked at him. His brother Tom already had his boots laced. Ned stood at the gate with his lamp swinging and told himself a cat was only a cat.

Then the timber gave with a sound like a door slamming in a far house. The men already below were hauled up the emergency chain, dusty and swearing but alive, and nobody sent the cage down again that day. Ned found the tabby later on the shed roof, curled round the warm chimney, and carried her home inside his coat.

After that the men of Shand Bottom touched their caps to the tip before they went down, and no one ever again called the cat a sinner to her face.

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