Tuesday 8 January 2013

Why does a glutton make the best hat ever?


 

A glutton is another name for a wolverine. They’re sort of enormous extra-fierce weasels:

 Wolverine

 They’re famously greedy and bad-tempered, but they’re nice and furry. Glutton fur is specially good for hats because ice from the moisture in your breath refuses to form on it.

So if you can catch a glutton, kill it, skin it, then cure the skin, you’ve got the very best cold-weather hat ever; and you can give it to your sweetheart, if you are lucky enough to have one.

 Just don’t expect all that much gratitude, that’s all.

 

1 comment:

  1. That's more like it! Not cold and dark and brains etc but a nice furry hat that won't freeze. What could be better? And I LOVE the name GLUTTON for a wolverine. Who knew?? You'd have to do the skin curing first, though, wouldn't you? With those BRAINS?? No getting away from them, it seems.

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