A timid hotel chambermaid,
Of burglars was so much afraid,
She looked under the bed
Saw a mouse there instead.
And the guests quite enjoyed the parade.

[Foolish Limericks Now and Then are Relished by the Best of Men. Chicago Tribune, 1 May 1910. panel 2.]

A young married lady named Rowe,
Hired a butler, quite English, you know,
While attempting to buttle,
He fell through the scuttle,
Said the lady, “Dear me, must you go?”

[Foolish Limericks Now and Then are Relished by the Best of Men. Chicago Tribune, 1 May 1910. panel 1.]

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.

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.”