Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat

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The Mad Hatter reciting, with the Dormouse next to him, as illustrated by John Tenniel

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" is a verse recited by the Mad Hatter in chapter seven of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . It is a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". [1]

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Text

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky. [2]

Context

The Hatter is interrupted in his recitation by the Dormouse. "The Bat" was the nickname of Professor Bartholomew Price, one of the Dons at Oxford, a former teacher of Carroll's and well known to Alice Liddell's family. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gardner, Martin (1998). The Annotated Alice . Random House. p. 98. ISBN   978-0-517-18920-7.
  2. Carroll, Lewis (1867). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan. p.  103.