Meaning: Prosperity, joy, family, and contentment
Depiction: The blacksmith, in the glad days before his alcoholic ruin, shows off the ten cups he made to his loving wife and three children. The cups are lined up on a shelf before him: he and his family have their backs to the viewer, as in the original card.
Text: Chapter 112- The Blacksmith
He had been an artisan of famed excellence, and with plenty to do; owned a house and garden; embraced a youthful, daughter-like, loving wife, and three blithe, ruddy children; every Sunday went to a cheerful-looking church, planted in a grove.
Comments: I knew I'd get the blacksmith in here somehow. Isn't it funny how most of the happier scenes in Moby Dick happen before anyone sets foot on the Pequod?
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