Nantucket Limericks

"THE FIRST VISIT" 25

On the flight back to Cape Ann — at about five hundred feet off the water — he'd been constantly looking out of the starboard window, and, when offshore about two miles east of Wellfleet, he excitedly asked me to circle, so that he could see some whales having a ruckus in the ocean. I did so, and asked what was going on. "They're making love, I think," was his reply.

Nantucket Limericks

There was once a man in Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket; But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

Pa followed the pair to Pawtucket, The man and the girl with the bucket; And he said to the man He was welcome to Nan, But as for the bucket, Pawtucket.

It was jolly old Sachem Wanackmamack Who built him a boat out of hackmetack; Then he set up his sail To the gentle June gale, And, says he: "If it's too rough I'll back me tack."

The catboat "Mincie'