Limericks

An Old Man With a Beard

There was an old man with a beard

Who said, "It is just as I feared! --

Two owls and a hen,

Four larks and a wren

Have all built their nests in my beard."

A Young Farmer of Leeds

There was a young farmer of Leeds

Who swallowed six packets of seeds.

It soon came to pass

He was covered with grass,

And he couldn't sit down for the weeds.

One Summer at Tea

There was a young lady named Perkins

Who had a great fondness for gherkins;

One summer at tea

She ate twenty-three

Which pickled her internal workin's.

A Man of Bengal

There once was a man of Bengal

Who was asked to a fancy dress ball;

He murmured, "I'll risk it

And go as a biscuit..."

But a dog ate him up in the hall.