This curious set of cards appears in
Puck magazine, 1878. The symbols (left to right, top to bottom):
- Maiden (a love interest)
- Gaslight (burned until exceedingly late at night)
- Darkness (i.e. the gaslight after being put out) and dreaming
- Heart (naive love; woefulness)
- Hand sign (a "terrible oath," i.e. a reckless promise)
- Hand sign (a second "terrible oath")
- Dust (the foot of someone off to parts unknown)
- Blank (absence, emptiness)
- Clock ("the early and proper hour")
The deck also includes a Gentleman card, but it wasn't printed. The explanation: "We don't give his portrait, 'cause he had red hair and it might hurt the paper."
