Puff, the Magic Dragon incorporated into the song. In it, Puff found another child and played with him after returning. Neither Yarrow nor Lipton remembers the verse in any detail, and the paper that was left in Yarrow's typewriter in 1958 has since been lost. After the song's initial success, speculation arose — as early as a 1964 article in "Newsweek" — that the song contained veiled references to smoking marijuana. The word "paper" in the name of Puff's human friend (Jackie Paper) was said to be a reference to rolling papers, and the word "dragon" was interpreted as "draggin'," i.e. inhaling smoke; similarly,
The Dragon of the North The Dragon of the North The Dragon of the North (, literally Frog of the North) is an Estonian fairy tale, collected by Dr. Friedrich Kreutzwald in "Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed jutud". Andrew Lang included it in "The Yellow Fairy Book"; he listed his source as "Der Norlands Drache" from "Ehstnische Märchen", which was the German translation of Kreutzwald's work, by F. Löwe. A dragon came from the north and devastated land. It was said that a man with King Solomon's ring could stop it. A brave young man set out to find some way. A famous Eastern magician told him that