"Pigtailed" Quotes from Famous Books
... Catholic Mission, the City Temple, to a Chinese house where I was slipped into the court and the door shut, and then into another to find that I was in the home of the China Inland Mission, and that the pigtailed celestial receiving me at the steps was Mr. Hope Gill. It was my clothes I then learnt that had caused the manifestation in my honour. An hour later, when I came out again into the street, the crowd was waiting still ... — An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma • George Ernest Morrison |