A Lion Was Learning to Ski
And Other Lines for a Laugh
Published on 2. November 2015
192 pages
978-1-78334-083-5 (ISBN)
Description
A Lion Was Learning to Ski. Humour, Limericks, Whimsical.
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Person
Ranjit Bolt is a British playwright and translator. After his degree at Oxford University, he worked as a stockbroker for eight years, but escaped City-life by translating an obscure play that became hugely successful. His version of Cyrano de Bergerac opened on New York in September 2012 and he is currently working on an adaptation of Volpone for Sir Trevor Nunn, to be produced by the RSC this summer. He was awarded the OBE in 2003 for services to literature. He lives in Canterbury.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Foreword
- Animals
- A lion was learning to ski
- There was once a comedic giraffe
- An elephant trod on a flea
- A cockroach was making a tour
- When a shark chased a diver named rose
- There was a Scots cat called MacLeod
- A hungry young Spanish cicada
- An unmusical medic from Tring
- Said a man to a snake in Makamba
- There once was an old witch of Rennes
- Silly
- A civilised felon named Franks
- There was once a professor named Gerda
- There was a young lady from Derry
- A boy with a big blue balloon
- There once was a fellow named Foley
- A costive young lady from Crewe
- A gloomy young fellow called Biff
- There was a young lady from Hale
- A soprano who came from Penang
- I know of a cobbler in Crewe
- Not so Lucky
- There was a young man from Cochin
- An unfortunate fellow named Futter
- A medieval lady from Leicester
- There was an Oxonian named Dodds
- A miserable fellow named Durdle
- There once was an old chap from Cork
- An unfortunate fellow from Toft
- There once was a man from Torcello
- Fishing's pants, if I might make so bold.
- There once was a man from Milwaukee
- A Buddhist from Burma opined
- There was a young lady named Girder
- A funny old fellow called Florey
- Brains
- There was a man from Mull
- There was also a man from Staines
- Newton said to his helper: 'This prism'll
- In Cambridge, where yours truly dwells,
- Two bugs were discussing Man's Evil -
- Abroad
- There was an old man from Rabat
- One fine morning, the folk of Tralee
- A guy from LA called Jim Fox
- There was a young man from Berlin
- When the Empire was still fairly young
- There was a young man from Dunkirk
- There was also a man from Bombay
- An Italian lady named Lisa
- Long ago in Provence an old man
- A Paddy whose county was Cork
- There was once a Bengali mahout
- A young Carolinian named Trigger
- A young single woman from Beaune
- It is not common knowledge, But Spooner,
- An old sadhu who lived in the Ghats
- Acknowledgements
