“They live ’neath the curtain
Of fir woods and heather,
And never take hurt in
The wildest of weather,
But best they love Autumn—she’s brown as themselves’
And they are the brownest of all the brown elves.”

—Patrick Chalmers, from The Puk-Wudjies, a poem published in Punch in 1910. According to Priscilla Johnston in Edward Johnston, 1958, Edward Johnston loved this poem and even created his own toy puk-wudjies.