This joke book takes as its framework the cumulative nursery song that starts "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly". Successive double-page spreads thus feature jokes on flies, spiders, birds, cats, dogs, goats, cows and horses. The book goes on to extend the the song beyond its normal end. Arthur Robins has also illustrated "Little Rabbit Foo Foo", "Impo", "The Magic Bicycle", "Beware Olga!" and "The Finger Eater".
