Puck — December 24, 1879 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUCK. PUCK. Nos, 21 & 23 WARREN STREET. FOR SALE BY ALL NEWS DEALERS. Jerus To Sunscrisers dn the United States and Canada, 7 one year, six months, or 26 nur three month, or #3 umber Inctvpma Posts SFECIAL NOTICES. cp Remitazess by Money Order, etc, are to be addressed to ‘Ma Next week Pucx will publish THE ADVENTURES OF COLONEL LIEBIG. A new story by Antuun Lor. ‘ALLAN Bi'S, 15 Boulevard. Saint Martin, x the * Herald” Ofsce, a9 Avenue del'O} Grnaay at'F. A. BROCKHAUS'S: Lopng, Bevis and Viewss, CONTENTS. ‘The Bartender’s Wooing (poem: “HC: Dodge, P98? A Christmas Carryall. A Mutual Watch—iltes, Sereet, Flot Street: it Glasgow. at G. Ky NS. 3 Rengeld Serset! in F Be pithen es. ristmas-Tree, ing Editor. — NSWERS POR THE AwxioUs. Bipot Anciect Rome: Ti — ‘The Flacci—Arthur Lot. Ancuim Gascovwn—Jobo Fraser Christmas “79s Leaves. de Onieclied Charucter—ills, Puck's Excnancas, No. 4 Share in the Seasons 1a!—Ernest Harvier. Hetdey Fashions. (No. I.) — Saved by Cheek—illus. Shakspere Studien — Jobe Albro | ‘The Man in the Moon. : THE SECOND EDITION or Puck's ANNUAL FOR 1880 has just been published, and may be had of all dealers or at this office. We have to renew our apologies to many purchasers whose orders we have been unable to fulfill, The extraordi- nary advance sale exhausted one entire edition before we could possibly get a second edition off the press. We have now made arrange- ments, however, to supply any future demand for Puck’s ANNUAL FoR 1880, THE KING OF SPADES. O more dirty streets, no more reeking ash-barrels sowing the seeds of fever and ue among us; for Captain Williams is transferred to the Street Cleaning Bureau to flatten the hillocks of mud in lieu of skulls, which, we have not a shadow of doubt, he will do equally as effectually. ‘There ought to be congratulations all round. The Police Commissioners are to be congratu- lated on doing, once in their lives, a sensible thing. Captain Williams is to be congratulated on receiving an appointment suitable to his peculiar talents, and the public is to be con- gratulated on getting practically rid of a man _ who was so very much out of place as Captain ofa precinct. Puck has certainly never spared Captain Williams; on his past misdeeds we have com- mented freely and vigorously, but wo are in- clined to let bygones be bygones, and give him all the encouragement in our power, pro- vided he will be as efficient in his new field of dabors as he was in his former one. In fact we are almost inclined to look upon Captain Williams as an injured man—to some extent. It was not his fault that he was so consti- euted by nature that he could not see a skull without feeling an irresistable desire to bring dis club in contact therewith. Rather were the Police Commissioners to blame for keeping the wrong man in the wrong place for so long a time. Captain Williams has now a good chance of retrieving his reputation, which is almost as much battered as some of the heads on which he has exercised his club. We believe he is an efficient public servant, but was simply matter in the wrong place. He will make our city nice and sweet and worthy of the great country of which New York is the Metropolis, and Captain Williams will find that it is, after all, much better to be the King of Spades than the Knave of Clubs. PUCK’S CHRISTMAS TREE. HRISTMAS has come again, and in ac- i ‘cordance with the gay and festive season Puck has a Christmas tree. It is a good-sized tree—and it is gar- nished with the regulation candles and a num- ber of pretty figures and other toys and things which, in Puck's goodness of heart, he presents to his readers, He has, in the first place, a nice little gift in the shape of a Mandarin ‘in fall celestial cos- tume; There is a cigar in the mouth of the figure and in the hand a fan on which is the legend “third term.” ‘There is an Indian puppet somewhat to the right of the Mandarin, It is trying to play on a pipe marked “Tammany.” This will be a suitable Christmas gift for the Republican party in the State of New York when they are short of votes. On the left lower branch of the iree isa little Buttercup doll. She has a flowing beard, and bears a strong resemblance to a prominent New York Senator, who is not altogether un- connected with Custom House patronage. A pair of dancing puppets, male and female, next attract our attention. The male doll is in Highland costume and is apparently in the throes of a Highland fling. ‘The female wears some sort of a coronet and a low-necked dress, and the pair are not unlike Dr. and Mrs, Lorne, the famous British residents of Canada. There are many of these charming toys and figures we should like to particularize and de- scribe at length; but Puck does not wish to bore his readers; if he did he would have some- thing to say about the Bennett-Hera/d hobby- horse, the Tilden jack-in-the-box, the Vander- bilt locomotive, the Peter Cooper cushion, and other articles too numerous to mention, But here are the gifts for those who want them, ready for distribution by Puck. “What a horrid thing it seems, love, to kiss a dead Person. Would you kiss me if I were dead?” “Would I just!"” Puckerings. Is Hindoo’s tan the same color as other peo- ple's? We hope Philadelphia, Pa., feels better. We dare not express a hope for Grant. Is it a feature of the Woman's Rights system that Miss Count shall have a share in election returns? Hamer was banished for his pleasantry with the Premier. For this offence, off hence! edicted his uncle. “Tue spring that turneth wood to stone.” The king here referred to the faction that made a pet-ri-faction of Hamlet. We have had our Christmas snow; and we trust the romantic young man with the muse and the influenza is satisfied. RememBer, Hans, when Samson's hair is cut it mitigates his strength. Yah, dot voz before he gots off mit-de-gates ov dot Gaza. Tue terrors and tortures of Hamlet's sea- voyage were appalling. He had to purchase oxygen to live on. He wrote Horatio: “Air we were ten days sold at sea.” Curistaas comes but once a year, So let us all be merry. We cannot alter it now it’s here; But it's very awkward—very, Tus is a good time for charitable feelings; and we hereby forgive all our enemies. We hope they wiil stay forgiven; but we warn them that they will have to behave themselves mighty sharp. WHEN the audience at the Park Theatre, on the night of the late fire, saw a policeman at the supposed place of danger, they naturally concluded that they were pretty safe, and went out quietly and in order. ‘Thus nearly a hun- dred valuable lives were saved. Ou! hang up the stocking that’s striped; And hang up the stocking that's spotted; And the one with embroidery dotted; Hang up the stocking that a wipe 'd Benefit. [Here the poet went out and did some hanging up on his own account.] “Epwin,” she whispered, as she laid her rosy cheek on his shoulder, and a tender smile played about her dainty lips: “ Edwin, will you always love me as you do now?” “ Arabella,” was his answer, emitted with a strange, sad, deep sigh: ‘let us be happy to-day, not think of a to-morrow. Fate plays strange freaks with mortals; yet believe me, dearest, ever—ever—" “ What, ever?” she coyly murmured. ‘The continuation of this interesting story will not be found in Puck's ANNUAL for 1880; but a great many other very nice things will; and the reader is at liberty to see for himself. NOTICE. Number 26 of Puck will be bought at this Office, No. 21 & 23 Warren St,, at 25 CEN’L£S per copy. s@7- In sending copies by mail please roll lengthwise. comicbooks.com