Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat
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"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" is a poem recited by the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."[1]
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- Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
- How I wonder what you're at!
- Up above the world you fly,
- Like a teacup in the sky.
- Twinkle, twinkle—
once the Hatter had recited this, the Dormouse carried on for him:
Twinkle, twinkle,twinkle,twinkle,twinkle,twinkle,twinkle,twinkle,
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The Mad Hatter is interrupted in his recitation. "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 the Alice Liddell's family. This poem is one of the few parodies in the Alice books of which the original is still widely known.
