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Article: REMEMBERING THEOPHILUS.(Poem)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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While hatters were hatting, they'd pass the time chatting
Of what they were enduring from felting and curing
With poisonous sulphates that addled their poor pates
And made them all mercury mad.
There was never a hatter didn't stop for a natter
About the struggles and strains he endured for his pains,
Of the dim reputation hatters held in the nation
For being so mercury mad.
But once in a while they might manage a smile,
And good reason find to salute hatter kind:
"Hail, Theophilus Carter, the trade's only martyr
And saint of the mercury mad,
You who ...