The Lumberjack
A burly, great lumberjack, Pinter,
Was crushed by a redwood one winter,
His friends knelt to pray,
But then heard him say -
“Relax, it’s only a splinter!”

A sailor and a scientist, a bishop and a botanist, a tourist and a tarantula; all these and a violin can be found in their own little limerick. There are 103 limericks in this collection, and 102 of them are not about violins.