The invited tea party guests were all assembled. Around the brightly decorated tea table they scrambled.
Alice asked with wide- eyed innocence, " Why does the Mad Hatter have no sense?"
With cups of tea and crumpets, chatter flowed all around, The Hatter was being , as usual, an absurd obnoxious clown. Just then to prove his madness and make it very clear, The Hatter, holding a hammer high, did jauntily appear.
He asked in perfect seriousness, a conscientious host,
"How many lumps, you can have one, or two at most?"
The rabbit looking quite perplexed, held up an empty cup, without a moment's hesitation, The Hatter hoisted the hammer up.
That rabbit got a lump, then two, then ran in pain away. A hammer on a rabbit's head really wasn't considered fair play.
"Alice, Alice, I'll tell you why and it's the verifiable truth, that Hatter's madness is really quite uncouth."
Spare the rod and spoil The Hatter inevitably must have been the parental rule during his youth.