skin-and-bone

A shepherd and his three goats trotted by on their daily milk delivery route while a bare-chested butcher, all sweat and grime, made light work of a skin-and-bone chicken, his splattered cleaver and block marking the beginning of a day-long shift.

The 33-year-old man said he owes his doctors "everything" following a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in an accident at the brick factory where he worked.

The 33-year-old man received a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in a workplace accident.

There are plenty of skin-and-bone operations in Port Louis, the island’s capital.

A funnier little dried-up skin-and-bone creature no one could have desired to see.