Punch and Judy, with Instructions How to Manage the Little Wooden Actors / Containing New and Easy Dialogues Arranged for the Use of Beginners, Desirous to Learn How to Work the Puppets. For Sunday Schools, Private Parties, Festivals and Parlor Entertainments.

by Thomas A. M. Ward

Polly.—Uncle, you won't forget the dollar?

Punch.—No. Now I want you to spell sugar. (She tries and fails.) Follow me my child—now, s-u-g-a-r. (She repeats the letters but fails to tell what they spell.)

Punch.—What does that spell?

Polly.—I don't know.

Punch.—What does your mother put in her tea?

Polly.—A spoon!

Punch.—Bah! sugar my child.

Polly.—Uncle, don't forget the dollar.

Punch.—I'll not forget it—now, Polly, follow me—(he proceeds and she repeats) m-i-l-k—what does that spell?

Polly.—Sugar.