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March Hare,) "it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing

You know the song, perhaps?"

"I've heard something like it," said Alice.

"It goes on, you know," the Hatter continued, "in this way:—

Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle" and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop. "Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse," said the Hatter, "when the Queen bawled out 'He's murdering the time! Off with his head!' "