Scrooge's other hat

[Kriton Kyrimis]

After all the discussion we had about Scrooge's silk hat, here's a
little Barks quote that shows that people talking about Scrooge not
having bought his hat in a rummage sale in Scotland may not have been
so sloppy in their research.

In "Lost Beneath the Sea", page 7, panel 8, Scrooge receives a cablegram:
"Cablegram for Mr. Scrooge McDuck!... Two more railroads had wrecks! Six
accordion factories folded up! Moths ate your extra silk hat!"

Thus, according to Barks, Scrooge had *two* silk hats, and since Barks
only mentioned how Scrooge got one of those hats, other writers talking
about the origin of whatever hat Scrooge is wearing during their stories,
are not contradicting any Barks "fact".

Come to think of it, it is quite reasonable that Scrooge would have two
hats, as he would need something to keep his head warm when he had his
hat cleaned!

Extrapolating from this, and given that one of these two hats was eaten
by moths in "Lost Beneath the Sea" and the other was left in Terry Fermy
in "Land Beneath the Ground", we must conclude that in stories taking
place after these two stories, Scrooge must be wearing one of two *new*
hats--oh, his aching wallet!
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	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
	      	(WWW:    http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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