‘That would be grand, certainly,’ said Alice thoughtfully: ‘but then — I shouldn’t be hungry for it, you know.’

‘Not at first, perhaps,’ said the Hatter: ‘but you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked.

’

‘Is that the way you manage?’ Alice asked.

The Hatter shook his head mournfully. ‘Not I!’ he replied. ‘We quarrelled last March — just before he went mad, you know — ’ (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) ‘ — it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing

“Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!