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And Sister's other fearful remembrance was of an old woman who beat her and drank much gin and water. Not that she had been ill-treated at the institution; but she had been dressed in an ugly uniform, and the girls had been rough and pulled her "pigtails" like Dan, Junior. "Once a gentleman came to see me," Sister confided to Hiram. "He was a lawyer gentleman, the matron told me.
We are not the only passengers, there are also a widow lady and her daughter, a girl a few years older than you, but still in pigtails, whose name is Joyce.
There was the report of a heavy gun, whose concussion made the wooden houses on each side jar and quiver as it literally ran up the narrow street, and, to our astonishment, we saw the little mob turn on the instant and begin to run, showing us, instead of their fierce savage faces, so many black pigtails; the mandarin's men, though, last. "Hooray!" we yelled after them, and they ran the faster.
Then there was a squadron of King's ships, and sometimes the whole fleet at Spithead, when the streets would be full of sailors, with their faces as brown as mahogany and pigtails as stiff and hard as their cutlasses.
The Liberals were distinguished by wearing their hair short, and when one day I happened to say how becoming a crop was, and that I wished the men would cut off those ugly pigtails, my father exclaimed, "By G , when a man cuts off his queue, the head should go with it." The unjust and exaggerated abuse of the Liberal party made me a Liberal.
"That's so," I said, and wondered if he required further information. "It's all right, mate. I don't want to 'ear no more about blinking pigtails not all my life I don't," and he sat back heavily in his chair and stared at Harley. "Where have you been?" inquired Harley, as if no interruption had occurred, and then began to reload his pipe: "at Malay Jack's or at Number Fourteen?"
It was the gale when the Thunderer and so many others of His Majesty's ships went down. You've heard of it, I dare say?" I told him that I had read about it in a naval history we had on board, but that the account of the pigtails and teeth was not given. "No, I dare say not; historians seldom enter as they ought into particulars," he answered, laughing.
There were four of us, and we would not hesitate to pay two dollars each for theatre tickets, which would be eight dollars, so really I was saving money. A nice little girl with flaxen pigtails brought her father's check. She and her brother tied Poppy behind their buggy and slowly disappeared down the hill.
Instantly she knew, seeing it was Anna-Rose who held it, where it would be in another second, and hastily putting out a shaking little hand from her top berth, caught hold feebly but obstinately of the upright ends of Anna-Rose's knotted pigtails. "I'm going to be sick," she announced with great presence of mind and entire absence of candour.
Part of it is likewise pervaded by Chinamen, who wear pigtails; and the outlying districts belong to the poor heathen, chiefly interesting as a field of missionary enterprise, and a possible market for Manchester piece-goods. We sometimes invest our money abroad, but then we are likely to get it swallowed up in Mexicans or Egyptian Unified.
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