Vintage St. Patrick's Day Greeting Card: Irish Boy with Flag & Hat

Like a Victorian-era Instagram filter set to maximum unsettling, Pat presents as a dead-eyed toddler in an oversized green top hat and white romper, clutching an Irish flag while dragging a small wooden rabbit on wheels behind him like some kind of nationalist therapy animal. The green belt cinching his tiny waist gives him the vaguely authoritarian air of a pint-sized ward boss, and his thousand-yard stare suggests he has seen things — terrible things — possibly involving corned beef. The rhyming couplet 'See my flag and see my hat, Sure you're right! My name is Pat' reads less like a greeting card and more like the opening testimony of a very small, very earnest congressional witness defending his Irishness before a skeptical committee.