CORONATION HUMOUR
The frontispiece drawing in " The New Limerick Book " shows a variegated crowds of foreigners walking happily together along the Strand, London. It summarises the general idea behind Mr. Langford Heed's new book of limericks. They are Coronation limericks; and if the quality is variable that perhaps is less to be wondered at than is the feat of having invented a hundred limericks more or less on the same theme, not to mention a more consecutive set of verses, in a different metre but still about the Coronation crowds, at the end of the volume. A fair sample of the more pointed of the limericks is the following:— There was a youiiff man from Saxrnundham, Who caught two seat agents and stunned 'em j
Ttioy had charged him ten pounds For a seat out of bounds, And refused with an oath to refund em. "The New Limerick Book/' by Lanpford Roed. With illustrations by Batchelor. (Jenkins.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)
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CORONATION HUMOUR
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)
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