_Bertha Plummer_, the blind daughter of the toy-maker, who fancied her poor old father was a young fop, that the sack he threw across his shoulders was a handsome blue great-coat, and that their wooden house was a palace. She was in love with Tackleton, the toy merchant, whom she thought to be a handsome young prince; and when she heard that he was about to marry May Fielding, she drooped and was like to die. She was then disillusioned, heard the real facts, and said, “Why, oh, why did you deceive me thus? Why did you fill my heart so full, and then come like death, and tear away the objects of my love?” However, her love for her father was not lessened, and she declared that the knowledge of the truth was “sight restored.” “It is my sight,” she cried. “Hitherto I have been blind, but now my eyes are open. I never knew my father before, and might have died without ever having known him truly.” _Edward Plummer_, son of the toy-maker, and brother of the blind girl. He was engaged from boyhood to May Fielding, went to South America, and returned to marry her; but, hearing of her engagement to Tackleton, the toy merchant, he assumed the disguise of a deaf old man, to ascertain whether she loved Tackleton or not. Being satisfied that her heart was still his own, he married her, and Tackleton made them a present of the wedding-cake which he had ordered for himself.--C. Dickens, _The Cricket on the Hearth_ (1845). =Plush= (_John_), any gorgeous footman, conspicuous for his plush breeches and rainbow colors. =Plutarch= (_The Modern_), Vayer, born at Paris. His name in full was Francis Vayer de la Mothe (1586-1672). =Pluto=, the god of Hadês. Brothers, be of good cheer, for this night we shall sup with Pluto.--Leonidas, _To the Three Hundred at Thermopylæ_. =Plutus=, the god of wealth.--_Classic Mythology._ Within a heart, dearer than Plutus’ mine. Shakespeare, _Julius Cæsar_, act iv. sc. 3 (1607). =Po= (_Tom_), a ghost. (Welsh, _bo_, “a hobgoblin.”) He now would pass for spirit Po. S. Butler, _Hudibras_, iii. 1 (1678). =Pocahontas=, daughter of Powhatan, an Indian chief of Virginia, who rescued Captain John Smith when her father was on the point of killing him. She subsequently married John Rolfe, and was baptized under the name of Rebecca (1595-1617).--_Old and New London_, ii. 481 (1876). The Indian Princess is the heroine of John Brougham’s drama, _Po-ca-hon-tas, or the Gentle Savage_. =Pochet= (_Madame_), the French “Mrs. Gamp.”--Henri Monnier. =Pochi Dana´ri= (“_the pennyless_”). So the Italians call Maximilian I., emperor of Germany (1459, 1493-1519).