It means
the hardest to keep.
Hair
As I remarked in the preceding chapter of this work, one of the
pleasantest features about being born is that we are born without
teeth and other responsibilities. Teeth, like debts and
installment payments, come along later on. It is the same way
with hair.
Born, we are, hairless or comparatively so. We are in a highly
incomplete state at that period of our lives. It takes a fond and
doting parent to detect evidences of an actual human aspect in us.
Only the ears and the mouth appear to be up to the plans and
specifications. There is a mouth which when opened, as it generally
is, makes the rest of the face look like a tire, and there is a pair
of ears of such generous size that only a third one is needed, round
at the back somewhere, to give us the appearance of a loving cup.
And we are smocked and hem-stitched with a million wrinkles apiece,
more or less, which partly accounts for the fact that every newborn
infant looks to be about two hundred years old. And uniformly we
have the nice red complexion of a restaurant lobster.
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