“A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His mouth can hold more than his belly can,
He can hold in his beak,
Enough food for a week!
I’m damned if I know how the hell he can!”

Dixon Lanier Merritt, a Southern newspaper editor and President of the American Press Humorists Association, penned this famous limerick in 1910.

Local call number: c821114

Title: [Pelican]

Personal Author: Overton, Robert.

Date: Between 1982 and 1986.

Physical descrip: 1 photoprint : b&w ; 7 x 5 in.

Series Title: (Commerce Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850-245-6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us