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'Welly much bad Joss! answered the Celestial composedly. 'Let um earth shake-shake, all sem this, knockum poo' Chinaman's house down. A favourite way of tormenting the Chows was to rob them of their pigtails. A Mongolian's pride in his pigtail is very great, and his grief over the loss of it seems to be tinged with a superstitious fear.
Edward Dyson - In the Roaring Fifties
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