The Fox and the Hen, written for Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With a Limerick, where the prompt word is box. I wrote a diptych, and I hope it gives you a chuckle.
The Fox and the Hen
Here are the limericks in text form, for anyone who can’t view the images.
There once was a wily old fox
who wore shoes without any socks
he was hunting a hen
when he slipped up and then
he was pecked by the hen’s brood of cocks
There once was a crafty old fox
who liked to sleep all day in a box
he’d snore loudly and then
dreaming dreams of the hen
he’d jump out like a jack-in-the-box
—Lesley Scoble, April 2026
Thank you, Esther, for the inspiration.
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