A limerick-style rhyme about a man enjoying a smoke on a sunny day, until a bird called a snipe makes off with his pipe. Quick and silly, with the satisfying snap a limerick's rhyme always delivers.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
There was a fat man of Bombay,
Who was smoking one sunshiny day;
When a bird called a snipe
Flew away with his pipe,
Which vexed the fat man of Bombay.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition