LIMERICKS FROM CHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 14, 17 January 1925, Page 17

LIMERICKS FROM CHURCH.

r-ARSOXS AT TLAY. Ilere are some typical Limericks from the Church: — DEAN" INGE: There was a pood Canon of Durham Who swallowed a book and a wurrunv Said the Dean to the Bishop ' "1 have broucht n hi:; fish up, But I fear we shall have to inter 'im." BISHOP WELDOX: There as a young man of Flavana Said, "Love ends In smoke, for the manner Of smoking. I vow, So effeminate now nas become, that I cannot have Anna." BEY. CHARLES INGE (Oxford!: A certain young gourmet of Crediton Took some pate-Ue-foie gras and spread it on A chocolate biscuit. Then murmured. "I'll risk it"— Hts tomb bears the date that he said it on. PURPLE YOUNG CURATE. "What Mr. Langford Heed considers the world's best Limerick has a ministerial element about it: We thought him an absolute lamb. Until he sat flown in the jam On taking bis seat At our Sunilav uclinnl treat. We all heard him say: '•Stand up, please, while I say fc'ruco." OLDEST LIMERICK. As to the oldest Limerick, Mr. Langford Reeil considers this nursery rhyme leaves ! Edward Lear.-the supposed inventor of the Limerick, at least a hundred years behind: Hickory, diekory. dock, 1 The mouse ran up the clock. Tiie clock struck one, The mouse ran down— Hickory, (lickory, dock. The collector has found Limericks by Stevenson, Rossetti and others, but he could not get one from Mr. Bernard Shaw.