. The land of the pigtail : its people and customs : from a boy's point of view . EAKLEY-SVQAK STALL. have any money to spend, to make an investment, andthose who have not, to have the gratification, at least,of looking at the barley-sugar, with a hope, perhaps,that somehow or another-they may be able to pick up astray bit. .The boy seen approaching is one of the former class,for he holds his coin in his hand; his youthful charactermay be inferred from the delight manifested by his 142 THE LAND OF- THE PIGTAIL. outstretched hands, and by the little tuft of hair on hishead, which is twisted and
. The land of the pigtail : its people and customs : from a boy's point of view . EAKLEY-SVQAK STALL. have any money to spend, to make an investment, andthose who have not, to have the gratification, at least,of looking at the barley-sugar, with a hope, perhaps,that somehow or another-they may be able to pick up astray bit. .The boy seen approaching is one of the former class,for he holds his coin in his hand; his youthful charactermay be inferred from the delight manifested by his 142 THE LAND OF- THE PIGTAIL. outstretched hands, and by the little tuft of hair on hishead, which is twisted and bound in soft horn, and isornamented with crimson silk, and to which by andbythe pigtail will be attached^ But strong as his love maybe for barley-sugar, there is yet a stronger feeling in hisbreast, and that is his love for gambling. See, there is. EOY GOING TO SOITOOI, a wheel in front of the stall, and customers may buythe mans wares, or may stake the money and turn thewheel, which will decide whether they get twice asmuch for their money, or none at all. It is a sort ofChinese , double or quits : the only thing like it inthis country is the custom adopted in London by boys, EDUCATION. 143 who, in dealing with the street mutton-pieman, toss himwhether they shall have two pies, or none at all fortheir money. ^ . I suppose one of the greatest evils that could happeiato a boy is a love of gambling; for, whether one losesor wins, one is never satisiied. The desire is to playagain, either to win back what one has lost, or else towin more. The Chinese are very fond of gambling;and though there are edicts, against it, and the man-darins profess to prohibit it, there are some quartersof the cities where every house is either a gambling-house, or devoted to the manufacture of materials for
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