onion-skin

Updated: June 8, 2025

One of these bore on the killing of the prisoner that morning: the orator declared that he was a bad man, and that he had met with a just end, that the people must understand that they must behave themselves properly, and so on. I forget how many speeches were made; but the tribune was never long unoccupied. Another performance of the day was the distribution of strips of white onion-skin paper.

Cornélis de Witt Willcox - The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon