Today
Sometime in September
Possibly a weekday
Have you found the answer to my riddle yet? If you have, you must have big brains. Mind you find a good-sized hat.
I'm sorry to say I don't quite know the answer myself. Everyone ridicules me for that, but I tell people it's a philosophical question. That's always a clever method, I think, because then you can't ever be right or wrong.
I used to use that all the time when I was a young Hatter and studying away at school. I always used to catch those difficult trick questions and answer with an equally tricky answer to understand.
The teachers never appreciated this wisdom on my part.
So I left school rather early. A terrible shame really, and a terrible loss to the world. Still, I followed my nose and my passion for making hats and I've ended up a successful hatter.
People ought to follow my example really.
Today's topic is about world leadership. An ambitious topic, of course, but my brains can handle it. Now, the Red Queen is long gone, and we of Wonderland have elected an especially Wonderful leader. I took my vote and I like to think that's what made the difference. We have elected the White Rabbit as ruler of all Wonderland.
It's a bit of an improvement I suppose.
He's a little paranoid and nervous, and twitchy as all rabbits would seem to be. But underneath all that, he is a very wise person. He came up with his own personal answer to my riddle.
"Mr. Hatter, that is a very good question. Why is a pocket watch like a waist jacket?"
And so we are really puzzling over each other's riddles and have quite forgotten that the other has not answered our own.
Oh.