LIMERICKS
TEXT AND PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD
THE CONSERVATIVE OWL
A CANARY, its woe to assuage,
Once invented a wireless cage.
The owl shook his head,
“It’s a Great Thought,” he said,
“But it’s far in advance of the age.”
THE OMNIVOROUS BOOK-WORM
QUOTH the book-worm, “I don’t care one bit
If writers have wisdom or wit;
A volume must be
Pretty dull to bore me
As completely as I can bore it.”
THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK