In the original nursery rhyme, Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed to have a battle because Tweedledum accused Tweedledee of spoiling his nice new rattle. However, after a monstrous crow frightened them both, they forgot their quarrel. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There (1871), the two fat little men are portrayed as twins who enact and quote their nursery rhyme for Alice. They also tell her the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter.