"No place at all," answered the man with the
braids; "that is, not recently.
The young men and warriors produced their spears, paddles, canoe-gear, battle-clubs, and war-conchs, and occupied themselves in carving, all sorts of figures upon them with pointed bits of shell or flint, and adorning them, especially the war-conchs, with tassels of
braided bark and tufts of human hair.
There were other striking things about her--the cowboy Stetson hat, the heavy
braids of brown hair, and the long-barrelled 38 Colt's revolver that hung in its holster on her hip.
From the little standing ruffle at the neck the child's slender throat rose very brown and thin, and the head looked small to bear the weight of dark hair that hung in a thick
braid to her waist.
She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two
braids of very thick, decidedly red hair.
Strongly attached to the same beam was what appeared to be an end of a rope of
braided horsehair, which had been cut by the bullet in its passage to the knot.
Then Rapunzel let down the
braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her.
"I've brought Princess Ozma a box of flutters for her birthday," said the
Braided Man, earnestly; "and I hope she will like them, for they are the finest quality I have ever made."
It wouldn't be so bad if he'd only taken a little, but he cut a great big chunk right off the end of one of the
braids. Just look at it.
As Madame Nilsson's "M'ama!" thrilled out above the silent house (the boxes always stopped talking during the Daisy Song) a warm pink mounted to the girl's cheek, mantled her brow to the roots of her fair
braids, and suffused the young slope of her breast to the line where it met a modest tulle tucker fastened with a single gardenia.
He wore blue silk stockings, blue knee pants with gold buckles, a blue ruffled waist and a jacket of bright blue
braided with gold.
"I'm giving Anne that half dozen
braided rugs I have in the garret.