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.

An eel who had studied Delsarte,
The alphabet thus could impart
To a small school of fish,
Who said ‘t was their wish
To learn without using a chart.

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXIV, July 1912, no. 3, p. 480.]

There once was a provident puffin
Who ate all the fish he could stuff in.
Said he, “‘T is my plan
To eat when I can:
When there’s nuffin’ to eat I eat nuffin’.”

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXIII, December 1911, no. 2, p. 319.]