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Updated: June 14, 2025
With his drooping sleeves and foot-long fingernails, he looked like the bats that sail under the trees in the twilight and nest, so they say, in people's hair. He gazed out over the tea-fields and saw not a soul, for every mother's son and mother's daughter, too, was hiding tight under the bushes, but a million little pigtails trembled in the air. "Whee!" shouted the great Choo Choo Choo;
It all grew out of one of the child's innumerable squabbles with David she got along fairly peaceably with Blair. She and Nannie had been comparing pigtails, and David had asserted that Elizabeth's hair was "the nicest"; which so gratified her that she first hugged him violently, and then invited him to take her out rowing.
I parted on the most friendly terms from my narrow-eyed acquaintance, but when I had nearly regained my boat I could still see them in their blue-cotton dresses and long pigtails, gazing open-mouthed at my vanishing figure across the rice-fields."
I could do no more than vent my bewilderment in ejaculations. "Chinamen!" I cried. "Or Japs," remarked the grocer. "Come to think of it, they must 've been Japs; they did n't have no pigtails." Well, there was nothing else for me to do but turn round and go back the way I had come. The grocer could tell me no more, and I was completely stumped. But one thing was certain.
Chinamen, with pigtails and loose trowsers; Aborigines, with a solitary blanket flung over them; Vandemonian pickpockets, with cunning eyes and light fingers all, in truth, from the successful digger in his blue serge shirt, and with green veil still hanging round his wide-awake, to the fashionably-attired, newly-arrived "gent" from London, who stares around him in amazement and disgust.
"Not quite so loud," she reproved me. "I believe it began in dear old St. John's. You were about fourteen when you declared your passion, and I wore pigtails and exceedingly short skirts. My legs, also, were the spindliest things." "Yes, that was the beginning, Dora, and it has continued ever since. During the years I spent abroad we kept on writing.
"You'll lose your bet," said the captain to the New Yorker, "for I've lost a similar wager under the same circumstances." "But the Japanese don't wear pigtails," said the New Yorker, somewhat abashed. "Those Japanese do wear pigtails," said the Englishman with a grin. "What's up?" said the captain, looking involuntarily towards the entrance to the dining-saloon. "What's up?
"Could I play in it, and run and climb? Would I be as free as in this little old brown smock?" The Beautiful Wicked Witch raised her hands in horror. "My cobweb frock! Why, it would be ruined! It would be in shreds! How can you even think of treating it so!" So Ivra shook her head until her funny little pigtails flopped from side to side. "I don't want to wear it then for even a minute.
Chinese they are, without a doubt: but whether old or young, men or women, you cannot tell, till the initiated point out that the women have chignons and no hats, the men hats with their pigtails coiled up under them. Beyond this distinction, I know none visible. Certainly none in those sad visages 'Offas, non facies, as old Ammianus Marcellinus has it. But why do Chinese never smile?
All the people working in the tea-fields hid under the bushes when they saw those men. Only the tea-bushes didn't help them much, for they were so frightened that their little pigtails rose straight up in the air like new shoots growing out of the bushes. There were thousands of those pigtails sticking up straight in the air all over the fields.
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