Black Cat

My buddy Nash came down from Athens and asked for a black cat tattoo. He ended up with a panther two stars and the words black cat.

As a riverboat pilot, Samuel Clemens would have heard the term “Mark Twain,” which means “two fathoms,” on a regular basis. According ot Justin Kaplan, the term many also have come from Mark Twain’s time in Nevada, where saloonkeepers used “Mark Twain” to represent two drinks on credit