![]() ![]() “ I want a clean cup,’ interrupted the Hatter ‘let’s all move one place on.’ ![]() The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark.” ‘Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,’ the Hatter grumbled, ‘you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread knife.’ ‘It was the best butter”’the March Hare meekly replied. ‘I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!’ he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. He had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.Īlice considered a little, and said, ‘the Fourth.’ ‘What day of the month is it?’ he said, turning to Alice. The Hatter was the first to break the silence. “There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter are having tea at it a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head.” Just for fun, I’ll put three excerpts from Carroll’s original Tea Party text followed by clips from Disney’s 1951 animated movie and the 2010 movie starring Johnny Depp – an appropriate choice to play a Mad Hatter. ![]() Dormice were known for their annual hibernations, and hares generally seemed mad in the month of March when their mating season began.Īlice can hardly be blamed for her frustration as events unfolded. Alice, of course, was based on a normal girl. Author Lewis Carroll knew his characters well. Alice met the peripatetic hatter and his friends Dormouse and the March Hare at a rather strange tea party. I say that because one pound then might by $100 today, which would make the hat unavailable to anyone who didn’t have $50.00 to spare - which would include our Mad Hatter.īut to return to the Mad Hatter himself. Which could make the 10/6 equivalent to perhaps $6.00. And in the 19th century a pound was worth $11.00. It took twelve pence to make a shilling and twenty shillings to make a pound. Such a colorful character is worthy of his own entry, especially near October 6, a date which corresponds nicely to the price of his hat. A couple weeks ago, we met the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland as an example of what could happen to hatters who used mercury nitrate in the production of fur hats. ![]()
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