[A] Tutelary deities of the Nibelungen.
--PUCK, _February 11th, 1891_.
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WITH “HEALTH AND WEALTH AND LUCK TO ALL!” PUCK HAILS HIS READERS GREAT
AND SMALL.
_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.”
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[Illustration: INDEX]
Page
A Harmless Explosion 27
A Humiliating Spectacle 67
A Little Change; or, Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows 3
A Merry Christmas to All 47
A Midsummer Day’s Dream 103
An Attack on our Outer Ramparts 15
Arbitration is the True Balance of Power 155
A Russian Nocturne 107
“A Sail! A Sail!” 51
At Last! 95
Between Slavery and Starvation 167
Blaine Leaving the Capitol--“I Go--But I return” 79
Consistency 207
Consolidated 11
First Annual Picnic of the “Knights of Labor” 151
“For Whatsoever a Man Soweth, that Shall He also Reap” 159
Frederick III. of Germany--The End of a Brave Life 123
Good Gracious! 135
He Beats Barnum 139
Helping the Rascals In 83
In Memoriam Emperor William I. 115
In the Clutches of the Monster 183
It isn’t the Cowl that Makes the Monk 211
Just the Difference 43
Let us have Peace, now a President’s Elected 59
Napoleon’s Retreat 195
On the Road 63
Opening a Little Campaign all by Himself 75
Positively Last Awakening of the Democratic Rip Van Winkle 39
“Prohibition is Coming!” 147
Puck’s Political Hunting Ground 31
Puck’s Sample Speakers of Moral Ideas 203
Quality Counts 87
Restless Nights 191
Samuel J. Tilden 55
“Shake!” 127
Siegfried, The Fearless, In the Political Dismal Swamp 99
The Big Boycott Wind-bag 179
The Carol of the “Waits” 91
The Cinderella of the Republican Party and her Haughty Sisters 23
The Democ-rats Caught in the Presidential Trap 7
The European Equilibrist 119
The Mephistopheles of To-day--Honest Labor’s Temptation 175
The Murderer’s Straight Route to Heaven 143
The Opening of the Congressional Session 187
The Political “Army of Salvation” 19
The Poverty Problem Solved 163
The Raven 215
The Reign of Peace.--The Mouse is Safe While the Moon Shines 111
The Situation in Germany 131
The Suckers of the Working-man’s Sustenance 171
The Universal Church of the Future 35
The War of the Operas 219
They hate the Light, but They can’t Escape it 199
Uncle Sam’s Lodging House 71
With “Health and Wealth and Luck to All!” 223
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