Vintage Christmas card: Bringing in the yule log

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This small, slightly embossed, Christmas card measures 4½ inches by 3½ inches. It's not folded and there's no writing on the back. So it could have been intended to go inside an envelope, or perhaps just handed to someone — Rheva in this case.

A Google image search brings up other vintage illustrations of folks dragging a yule log through the winter snow, but not this specific illustration. So, no luck on the date or manufacturer. It could easily be 100 years old, or possibly produced as "recently" as the 1940s, in my opinion.

The text states: 

"A Very Merry Christmas

The season's cheer this Wish inspires

Warm as the glow of Yuletide fires"

I also posted a vintage illustration of the collecting of a yule log in 2019. I wrote then of the enjoyable "idea of gathering around a roaring fire at Midwinter for good company, good cheer in a cup, and perhaps a good ghost tale while the wind howls outside." The sentiment still stands. There would be friends and loved ones aplenty, a sprawling vegetarian feast and multiple long, snowy nights of merriment, as the yule log is intended to burn for nearly a fortnight.

And there should be cats, too, of course. Here's Pete.