Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat
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1865 verse by Lewis Carroll
"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]
Text
[edit ]Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky.[2]
Context
[edit ]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]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b Gardner, Martin (1998). The Annotated Alice . Random House. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-517-18920-7.
- ^ Carroll, Lewis (1867). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan. p. 103.
