THE CHINAMAN AND HIS PIGTAIL.
The other day (says the Dunedin Evening News) while the gale was at its height, a nobby-looking Chinaman was walking behind a young lady dressed the'extreme of fashion, when a sudden gust of wind blew the Celestial's pigtail forward and wrapped the end of it around the lady's neck. Being frightened, she grabbed the end of the queue to snatch it away, but pulled in the wrong direction. The Chinaman also made a grab to recover his property, but he was out of luck, as he got hold of those long curls which are usually seen hanging down from waterfalls, as well as of his queue, and when he took a pull at it, the whole of the lady's top hair, hat and all came off. The lady's head had no hair on it, only a little that was gathered into a small knot that stood erect, like the scalp-lock of a Piute brave. If ever you saw a Chinaman astonished at what he had done it was that one.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 583, 2 May 1876, Page 3
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175THE CHINAMAN AND HIS PIGTAIL. Globe, Volume V, Issue 583, 2 May 1876, Page 3
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