NONSENSE VERSES
There was a young man sailed the main,
And he said, "Why are you in pain?
It's no use to be scared
For I never yet dared
To play tricks when the sea raises Cain."
And he said, "Why are you in pain?
It's no use to be scared
For I never yet dared
To play tricks when the sea raises Cain."
Said a man, "If I had greater room, kin
My boat be supplied with a boomkin?
And a well-ordered mess
That never grows less
Of Kennedy crackers and poomkin?"
My boat be supplied with a boomkin?
And a well-ordered mess
That never grows less
Of Kennedy crackers and poomkin?"
Said a man as he got out abaft her,
"My boat is the scene of much laughter,
For I tie to the spot
Where the storm strikes the yacht,
And that is the pleasure we're after."
"My boat is the scene of much laughter,
For I tie to the spot
Where the storm strikes the yacht,
And that is the pleasure we're after."
THREE LIMERICKS EXTEMPORIZED SEPT. 2, 1901,
on first going aboard the 'Alice'
on first going aboard the 'Alice'
There was a young man who said, "Lo,
I will sail all my boats in a row.
I will sail all my boats in a row.
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