Kipling as being the more deadly of the species. During
this interim it is a matter of no moment to a boy whether he goes
shaggy or cropped, shorn or unshorn. At intervals a frugal parent
trims him to see if both his ears are still there, or else a barber
does it with more thoroughness, often recovering small articles of
household use that have been mysteriously missing for months; but
in the main he goes along carefree and unbarbered, not greatly
concerned with putting anything in his head or taking anything off
of it.
In due season, though, he reaches the age where adolescent whiskers
and young romance begin to sprout out on him simultaneously--and
from that moment on for the rest of his life his hair is giving him
bother, and plenty of it.
Your hair gives you bother as long as you have it and more bother
when it starts to go. You are always doing something for it and
it is always showing deep-dyed ingratitude in return; or else the
dye isn't deep enough, which is even worse. Hair is responsible
for such byproducts as dandruff, barbers, wigs, several comic
weeklies, mental anguish, added expense, Chinese revolutions, and
the standard joke about your wife's using your best razor to open
a can of tomatoes with.
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