Part 5

From these halls a long space of period banished, I return like a wanderer, To the mansion vacated by the ignoble Teuton. Heavens! are these the portraits of my ancestors? Ha! vengeance I swear it! On this sword! By the waists of the ladies I perceive, And I observe by the anatomy of the gentlemen, The Teuton has desecrated my ancestral domain.

SOPRANO.

................. ................. ................. ................. .................Oh, my heart! Oh, my heart! Oh, my heart, Oh-oh-oh-oh! my heart! my heart, my hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah ha-a-a-AHT!!!

CHORUS.

Let us all Happy be! Here again Once more are we!

THE PUBLIC.

Two front seats for dollars three!

CURTAIN.

[A] Tutelary deities of the Nibelungen.

--PUCK, _February 11th, 1891_.

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.”

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

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling inconsistencies were were not changed by Transcriber.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

On the Title page, the copy number “92” was hand-written.

You can see the cartoons in the HTML version of this eBook at Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org).