Limericks

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LIMERICKS

There once was a man in Calcutta,

Who spoke with a terrible stutter.

At breakfast he said:

'Give me b-b-b-bread,

And b-b-b-b-b-b-butter.'

There was an old man from Peru,

Who dreamed he was eating his shoe.

He woke in a fright

In the middle of the night

And found it was perfectly true.

There once was a young man called Paul,

Who went to a fancy-dress ball.

He thought he would risk it

And go as a biscuit,

But a dog ate him up in the hall.

There was a young man of Bengal,

Who went to a fancy-dress ball.

He went, just for fun,

dressed up as a bun,

and a dog ate him up in the hall.

There was a young lady of Riga,

Who smiled when she rode on a tiger.

They came back from the ride

With the lady inside,

And the smile on the face of the tiger.

There was an old man from Dunoon,

Who always ate soup with a spoon,

For he said:`As I eat

Neither fish, fowl not meat,

I should finish my dinner too soon.

There was a young man of Japan,

Who wrote verses that never would scan.

When asked why this was,

He said:"It's because

I always try to get as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."