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One of the earliest forms of wit was LIMERICKS. Here in five short lines is the sort of humour which fractured our grandparents -
There was a young person called Ned
Who dined before going to bed
On lobster and Ham
On pickle and Jam,
And when he awoke he was dead. |
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Said a foolish young lady of Wales,
“A small of escaped gas prevails”,
Then she searched with a light
And later that night,
Was collected in seventeen pails. |
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A farmer once called his cow “Zephyr”,
She seemed such an amiable hephyr,
When the farmer drew near
She kicked off his ear.
Which made him considerably dephyr. |
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A clumsy young private named Tom,
Fell flat with a thousand-pound bomb,
And now up in Mars
They aro saying “My stars!
Where on earth did you emigrate from? |
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