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,
Puff Puff (food) Puff Puff (food) Puff puff is a dough based snack that originated in West Africa. It is made in countries like Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana. Like many other West African dishes, its origins are generally contested with multiple countries claiming to have devised the original and 'best' recipe. Puff-puff as it is called in Sierra Leone, and in Anglophone (English) C Cameroon and in Nigeria. The name of this traditional snack varies throughout Africa. For instance, it is called bofrot in Ghana, mikate in Congo, Beinye in [[Francophone (French) Cameroonian cuisine|[[Cameroon]], or kala in [[Liberian cuisine|Liberia]].The prominence of