LIMERICKS

TEXT AND PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD

THE ETERNAL FEMININE

SAID the spider, in tones of distress:

“As a spinster I’m not a success.

Though I toil and I spin

And I work myself thin,

I never can have a new dress.”

TRA-LA-LARCENY

A HEATHEN named Min, passing by

A pie-shop, picked up a mince-pie.

If you think Min a thief,

Pray dismiss the belief:

The mince-pie that Min spied was Min’s pie.


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