TWERICKS.
[TO THE EDITOR OP Till " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—This Limerick has, I believe, never been in print—one of the most complete puns on record :— " Said the famous Henry Ward Beecher To a hen, You're a beautiful creature.'
The hen answered, I beg You'll accept of an egg,' And thus did the hen reward Beecher."
There is one in Greek and English which I thought I should find in an old number of Light Green, published at Cambridge in the early " eighties." I did not find it there, but did find some which appeared a week or two ago in the Spectator—e.g., that on " Sid. Sussex." They were attributed at the time, if I remember right, to the present editor ti l'unch. The Creek one is :—
X/7oves Wpovra poOteryor oar 1-ormIrraror Oiryylo. six lid Odn•Twe
K6pcucas 0613nac,
ciX.V ilrovd-va 81Xceeeop.
The English version runs :- "There was an old man of Boulong,' Who sang a most topical song; It wasn't the words That fluttered the birds, But the horrible ' double ontong.' " [Our correspondent has postdated the issue of the Light Green by a decade. It appeared when the editor of Punch was still a schoolboy, and the chief contributor was the late A. C. Hilton.—En. Spectator.]
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