Alice Trading Cards
You had to go and follow that rabbit, didn't you?A few years ago (maybe decades by now, what do I know?), I dressed up as the Mad Hatter for Halloween. I gave out little drawings with phrases from Alice in Wonderland. Here are a few…
I daresay
it’s a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.
Alice’s Right Foot, Esq.
A barrowful of what?
I can’t go no lower.
I’m on the floor as it is.
I want a clean cup.
Let’s all move one place one.
I do wish I hadn’t
drunk quite so much.
I hadn’t quite finished my tea
when I was sent for.
How cheerfully he seems to grin
how neatly spreads his claws. And welcomes little fishes in with gently smiling jaws.
I’m opening out
like the largest telescope that ever was. Good-bye, feet.
Your hair wants cutting.
Hold your tongue, Ma!
You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster.
I was never
so small before.
I’ve none of my own.
I’m a hatter.
I’m older
than you, and must know better.
Mine
is a long and sad tail.
A mouse —
of a mouse — to a mouse — a mouse — o’mouse.
An arm, you goose!
Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills the whole window.
He’s murdering the time.
Off with his head.
Oh my ears and whiskers,
how late it is getting.
Why is a raven
like a writing desk?
Serpent!
It’s always
6 o’clock now.
Speak English!
I don’t know the meaning of half those long words.
It’s always tea-time,
and we’ve no time to wash things up between whiles.
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea tray in the sky.
I really must be getting home.
The night hair doesn’t suit my throat.
Three inches
is such a wretched height to be.
I should think you
could draw treacle out of a treacle well. Eh, stupid?
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat,
how I wonder what you’re at!
What day
of the month is it?
I wonder
who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now.
…and even if my head would go through,
it would be of very little use without my shoulders.