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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Big eyes, long neck, neat little feet you'd make an adorable Alice in Wonderland, with ankle- strap slippers, and a comb, and a dear little pinny over a blue frock! And your friend can be the Mad Hatter. Look well, wouldn't she, with a hat on one side? There are only the girls to see you, and the more comic you can make yourself the better they'll be pleased.
"To the Dona Maria Concepcion de Arguello de la Yerba Buena to speak precisely," said the colonel, slowly. "George, you can take that hat to that blank hatter what's his blanked name? I read it only yesterday in a list of the prominent citizens here and tell him, with my compliments, that I want a GENTLEMAN'S mourning band around my hat, and not a child's shoelace.
The ground was measured back of the store, the principals and seconds took their places, and the word of command was given. They fired, Uncle Bibbins, of course, being unhurt, but the hatter, with a fearful yell, fell to the ground as if dead. Barnum rushed up to the frightened Bevans and begged him to fly, promising to let him know when it was safe for him to return.
'I've had nothing yet, Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more. 'You mean you can't take LESS, said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take MORE than nothing. 'Nobody asked YOUR opinion, said Alice. 'Who's making personal remarks now? the Hatter asked triumphantly.
I asked the cap'n of the gang whut it meant, an' he 'lowed that the feller had been in the habit o' whippin' his wife, an' then I 'lows, I does 'Old chap, I reckon you'll hatter swallow yo' salts. Good night. An' I hearn him a swollerin' 'em. But if I hear you holler, Jasper, I'll " "Don't talk about it, Laz." "All right. Good-day."
When gentlemen come into the shop and buy a new hat, he explained, they put it on, meaning to tell you to send the old one to their address, and the art of being a fashionable hatter lies in this: you must be able to curl your lips so contemptuously at the old hat that they tell you guiltily to keep it, as they have no further use for it.
She began to think that officialdom in Mulberry Street affected the methods of the court circles frequented by Alice and the Mad Hatter. "Don't mind him," put in Steingall genially. "He's a living example of the close alliance between insanity and genius. On the tobacco question he's simply cracked, and that is all there is to it. Now we're wasting your time by this chatter.
Or else, in the streets of the town, I catch myself endeavouring hitherto without success to count up the number of grocers' shops. They are far in excess of what is needful. Now, why? Well, your tailor or hatter or hosier he makes a certain fixed profit on each article he sells, and he does not sell them at every moment of the day.
Wives indeed, and maybe fiancées, sometimes accompany those they love when a hat is to be tried on and purchased; but I have been told in bitter confidence by a polite hatter that 'tis a custom more honored in the breach than in the observance; and this I think is sufficient reason why it should not be extended, so to speak, to the breeches. 'Talking of shaving the other night at Dr.
You know the song, perhaps? 'I've heard something like it, said Alice. 'It goes on, you know, the Hatter continued, 'in this way: "Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle " Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep 'Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop.
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