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Updated: September 2, 2025
"Ting-a-ling-a-ting-a-ling-a-ting-a-ling-a-tang What Price Hair-pins Now?" The balloon rose and fell, went out of sight "landed, thank goodness," said Grubb re-appeared with a leap. "'ENG!" said Grubb. "Step it, Bert, or they'll see it!" They finished their dance, and then stood frankly staring. "There's something wrong with that balloon," said Bert.
Frequently both the men and the women rub into their heads the finely pounded root of a plant to which they attribute the virtue of softening their rough, luxuriant locks and of destroying the inmates. Even the men sometimes wear combs and hair-pins.
The hall is at least a protest against the wearisome stories concerning wills, misers in old castles, lost heirs, and the woeful solutions of such things she who has been kept in the castle cellar for twenty years restored to the delights of hair-pins and a mauve dress, the ingenue to the protecting arm, etc.
Margaret pulled the hair-pins out of her hair, letting it down and combing it with one of her side combs; twisted it up again in its soft, fluffy waves; straightened her collar, set on her hat, and was ready for the day. The squaw looked at her with both awe and contempt for a moment, then turned and stalked back to her papoose and began preparing it for the journey.
"Say, will the old man fall AGAIN?" queried Armistead. "He's going to marry her!" The three others stared at him in amazement. "Right!" confirmed Melcher. "She's got a strangle hold on him." "Hm-m! Maybe we haven't lost the last car yet," Sullivan ventured. Jim seconded the thought. "She's got an ace buried somewhere. There's a lot more in her head than hair-pins.
Everyone had an opinion as to how to extricate the valuable charge. The women, of course, suggested hair-pins, but these were tried without success. A gimlet taken from its handle and secured to the ramrod, refused to take hold.
You have too many sides. I like you when you are human and normal." "If you think my hair in its proper place will accomplish that result my hair-pins are up-stairs on my dressing-table " He disappeared instantly. When he returned she was standing and coiling her hair about her head. Her sleeves were loose and the attitude bared her arms.
Miss Macmahon had brown hair, with a natural ripple in it, and could afford to laugh at beauty that was obliged to adorn itself by means of hair-pins and tongs. Lizzie and Ellen were the daughters of a Major Melville, and the special friends of Miss Dunbar.
Grubb sang the song, Bert did his best to make the chorus a rousing one, and it the end of each verse they danced certain steps, skirts in hand, that they had carefully rehearsed. "Ting-a-ling-a-ting-a-ling-a-ting-a-ling-a-tang... What Price Hair-pins Now?"
The fancy cheeses, and the perfumes and soaps, made her laugh and laugh as she unwrapped them. There were fuzzy wash-cloths a particular fancy of hers and new library paste and new hair-pins, and a can-opener that made her exclaim: "Bert, that was cute of you!" and even an alligator pear.
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