LIMERICKSTEXT AND PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD
TEXT AND PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD
The Conservative Owl
ACANARY, 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.”
ACANARY, 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.”
ACANARY, 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.”
ACANARY, 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
QUOTHthe book-worm, “I don’t care one bitIf writers have wisdom or wit;A volume must bePretty dull to bore meAs completely as I can bore it.”
QUOTHthe book-worm, “I don’t care one bitIf writers have wisdom or wit;A volume must bePretty dull to bore meAs completely as I can bore it.”
QUOTHthe book-worm, “I don’t care one bitIf writers have wisdom or wit;A volume must bePretty dull to bore meAs completely as I can bore it.”
QUOTHthe 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.”
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