Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 545
SO HE HATED YOUNG AH LEE DEN LOO. Now Ah Lee Ben Loo had a wonder-ful queue,—It was fifteen feet long, by the by,—And this wonderful queue came inhandily, too,When he hung out the weeks wash to dry.But one morning, while Ah Lee was scrub-bing away,With his linen all out on the line,That malignant… … Somewhere in an edict three thousand yearsoldHe had read this incredible thing:That the law never spared any subject whodaredWear a longer pigtail than the king!
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