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Lewis Carroll wrote this preface to the 1896 edition:

Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: `Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!' This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all.

Carroll used the word "nevar" on purpose, because it is "raven" backwards; but historians claim the proofreaders 'fixed' the spelling in subsequent editions and the humour was lost. My favourite answer outside Carroll is by a guy named Sam Loyd, who postulated in 1914:

Because Poe wrote on both.

Carroll and Poe. . . the authors of my childhood. There you go.

(Google rocks).

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Pg 52

oops. left it at 300 dpi

Lewis Carroll wrote this preface to the 1896 edition:

Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: `Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!' This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all.

Carroll used the word "nevar" on purpose, because it is "raven" backwards; but historians claim the proofreaders 'fixed' the spelling in subsequent editions and the humour was lost. My favourite answer outside Carroll is by a guy named Sam Loyd, who postulated in 1914:

Because Poe wrote on both.

Carroll and Poe. . . the authors of my childhood. There you go.

(Google rocks).