WITH “HEALTH AND WEALTH AND LUCK TO ALL!” PUCK HAILS HIS READERS GREAT AND SMALL.
Reading edition
PUCK, December 5th, 1888.
The necessary ingredients of a Christmas punch are typified in this cartoon by four female forms. The verses that accompanied it in the Christmas Puck for 1888 were as follows:
“These forms divine Must in one combine For the Punch that Puck is preparing— And the dark-eyed form Is the spirit warm, With the wild Bacchante bearing. “The sweet-faced fair Puts the sugar there, Like Charity bland and placid. And Satire’s the jade Who lends lemon aid For a dash of the needful acid. “Calm Wisdom, too, May water the brew To temper, not quench, your laughter— Yet water comes best— With the keenest zest— Puck thinks, on the morning after.”
