Authors' Note: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, on the St. Mary River, is known casually by its English-speaking inhabitants and visitors as ‘the Sault’ (pronounced SOO). (A smaller town, similarly named, is also present on the American side of the river). French colonists had referred to the rapids on the river as les saults de Ste Marie (SOH).
A classic limerick, dating from 1902, concerns family economics and stressful relationships of a resident of the island of Nantucket in the state of Massachusetts:
There once was a man from Nantucket ...
A series of limericks by the present author provides satirical variations on this iconic tale.
The technically advanced bucket and safe combination imagined in the above verse might have been of use to the famous Nantucket protagonist.
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