[probably_wrong]

According to this article [1] you may have read the updated version.

> Seuss actually grew to become more aware of his harmful images later in his life, and to regret them, eventually revising the Mulberry Street text and illustration. "I had a gentleman with a pigtail. I colored him yellow and called him a 'Chinaman,'" Seuss said. "That's the way things were 50 years ago. In later editions, I refer to him as a 'Chinese man.' I have taken the color out of the gentleman and removed the pigtail and now he looks like an Irishman."

[1] https://theweek.com/articles/969777/complicated-quagmire-dr-...

[DangitBobby]

I think you are right. I saw another version later that seemed worse.