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"Besides, I hope to taste some of the pie, and a pie-taster should not be a poetaster." "Oh! Oh! Awful!" Jess cried. "I've run out of limericks myself," confessed Chet. "But one more!" Bobby hastened to say.
And those astonishing individuals, Messieurs Brindley and Colclough, secretly convinced of the justice of the attack on champagne, had whisky too. And that still most astonishing individual, Loring of the B.M., joined them. It was the hour of limericks. Limericks were demanded for the diversion of the doctor, and I furnished them.
With whoops and shouts they flocked to the capstan amidships, and began to compete, shoving on the bars, cheering and encouraging each other and deriding those on the forecastle deck, who responded. It was a tie; the Galways had about a minute start, but the Limericks finished only a minute behind. Murphy and Hennesey nippered the falls at the pinrail, and belayed when they slacked.
When I was tired of this specialized thinking, then the best relief, I found, was some quite trivial occupation playing poker, yelling in the chorus of some interminable song one of the men would sing, or coining South African Limericks or playing burlesque bouts-rimés with Fred Maxim, who was then my second in command.... Yet occasionally thought overtook me.
Then there's a line of limericks about the adventures of the 'Lulu Tulu Gummies' small gum-headed tykes always in trouble until they find Lulu. I got Phillips to do that as a personal favor." "Also Noughty-something, I suppose," remarked Houghton. "Yes. But he graduated before my time. I knew his work in the college annual. He's in the magazines now.
One good limerick deserves another. It happened that I knew a number of the unprinted Rossetti limericks, precious things, not at all easy to get at. I detailed them to Mr Brindley, and I do not exaggerate when I say that I impressed him. I recovered all the ground I had lost upon cigarettes and newspapers. He appreciated those limericks with a juster taste than I should have expected.
He might be a rather entertaining sort of poet; telling a smoking-room story in blank verse or writing a hunting-song in the Spenserian stanza; giving a realistic analysis of infanticide in a series of triolets; or proving the truth of Immortality in a long string of limericks. Browning certainly had no such indifference.
Catherine had taken the idea from the nonsense verses which had been spreading over the country as generally as the limericks of a few years before.
Shakspere, over in the corner and not autographed, had opened its mouth and begun to recite limericks. "Why why!" she said; and that was all she was capable of saying for the moment. Joy, terrified herself at her deed, turned and fled. What happened between Mrs. Jones and Grandfather she never knew, and never asked. She never halted in her flight till she was safe in her own little eyrie upstairs.
Horton may possibly loathe and detest Limericks just as I loathe and detest riddles; but I have no right to call them flippant and unprofitable; there are wild people in the world who like riddles.
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