CHINESE PIGTAILS.
Tho elite of Chinese society arc uneasy about the loss of their pigtails. Chinamen strut about proud of tho length and color of their pigtails; but should they enter a crowd or gaze upon a procession, they suddenly find themselves bereft of tho appendage so carefully nourished. No man possessing a tail dares now to take a siesta or indulge in opium, lest ho should awake a ruined and degraded man. It was for a time supposed that the barbarous English cut off the pigtails for exportation to England whore they wore to appear coil upon coil upon ladies* heads.—But it has been proved that there exists a secret society, known as the Pigtail Cutters, who, having lost their own tails by sentence of law conspire to cut off every pigtail they can. Now, as a Chinaman expects to be lifted up to Paradise by his pigtail, the deprivation of that ornament deprives him of heaven. Tho Imperial Government directs that every person convicted of clipping a pigtail shall be deemed a traitor, and be strangled—a severe penalty for a rape of the lock.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 774, 16 February 1877, Page 3
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186CHINESE PIGTAILS. Dunstan Times, Issue 774, 16 February 1877, Page 3
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