“After thinking it over I’ve found
(And I think that my logic is sound)
Though I can’t go about
For they’ll not let me out
They must let my stripes go around.”

There was a Fish lived in a pool
Who didn’t like to go to school
And hooky he’d play
Every sunshiny day
And that’s why they called him a fool.

Said the Cow with the crumpled horn
To the dairy Maid early one morn:
“Did you notice my switch?”
Then she game it a hitch
And the Maid wished she’d never been born.

When the Squirrel met a Magpie
In the top of a tree very high
They started to fight
To claw and to bite
And you should have seen the “fur fly.”

The next four limericks are from Animal Antics, a comic strip series by DeVoss Driscoll that ran in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from 22 November 1903 to 24 April 1904.
Thanks to Allan Holtz of Stripper’s Guide.