A tidy little character sketch of a stingy old woman who hides away all her food rather than share it with visitors. It is a limerick in everything but name, with a punchline rhyme that lands hard and fast.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
There dwelt an old woman at Exeter;
When visitors came it sore vexed her,
So for fear they should eat,
She locked up all her meat,
This stingy old woman of Exeter.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition