There aren't too many stories with a "hat", but it did take awhile for me to search through
Roverandom,
Farmer Giles, and
Tom Bombadil till I finally found the quote in
Smith of Wootton Major:
Quote:
Nokes... had always wished to become Master Cook...
...he used to put on the tall white hat and look at himself in a polished frying pan and say: 'How do you do, Master. That hat suits you properly, might have been made for you. I hope things go well with you.'
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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