Vintage Christmas Limerick Poem Postcard - Christmas Pudding

Hurrah for the holiday season!
Hail to its puddings and plums
Great blessings upon
The dear children
For whom this sweet Christmastide comes!

Christmas Limerick Postcard - To You And All Your Kinfolk

To you and all your kinfolk
A Happy Christmas Day!
A crowded year
Of joy and cheer
And fun and work and play!

Halloween Witch Limerick - Vintage Postcard Limerick

I hope you will not be afraid
If the Witches you see on paraid
They are excellent folk
But delight in a joke
For that's just the way they are maid

Said A Bat To An Owl In An Oak - Halloween Limerick

Said a Bat to an Owl in an oak-

"This Halloween Night is a joak!"

And that wise-looking bird

Replied: "Yes, it's absird,

I was thinking so when I awoak."

A Young Man From The South - A Drinking Limerick

There was a young man from the south
Who seldom opened his mouth
Unless he had call
To drink a high ball
And to him it was always a drouth.

The Jockey's at Every Race Course

The jockey's at ev'ry race course
His mission's to sit on a horse
If you've gotten a tip
The horse is sure to slip
And you end with a case of remorse

The Poker Cut Up - Vintage Limerick Postcard

His dough made him feel like a cut up,

Tho' he stalled as a thought lit his nut up

Said he'd bet 'twas a cinch,

The whole works would be pinched,

But they told him to put up or shut up

He Longed to See Shepherd's Bush Expedition - A Limerick

There was a young man of position
Longed to see Shepherd's Bush Exhibition
So he went there one day
But I'm sorry to say
He returned in this funny condition.

A Lodger Whose Rent Was Unpaid - A Limerick Postcard

A lodger whose rent was unpaid
Of his landlady was much afraid
With the gravest of airs
He descended the stairs
But his further progress was delayed.

The Old Maid (Not Politically Correct) A Limerick

She's caught a poor cat and a bird
But she can't snare a man, so we've heard
It's the old maid's sad fate
To lose out on a mate
And take tea - but ssh! not a word.

A Young Lady Whose Name, It Was Simons

A young lady whose name, it was Simons,

Was exceedingly fond of white diamonds,

Said, "It's lovely to marry

A man like you Harry,

Who knows how to pick out the fine ones."

A Young Man Named Bill - Limerick Postcard

There was a young man named Bill
Who drank till he made himself ill
When a policeman asked why
He said with a sigh
It's (hic) dreadful how quickly I fill!