# Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870

Author: Various

Genre: Punchinello

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9545

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Punchinello%2C+Volume+1%2C+No.+11%2C+June+11%2C+1870+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A modern American Ritualistic Spire! How can the modern American Ritualistic Spire be here! The well-known tapering brown Spire, like a closed umbrella on end? How can that be here? There is no rusty rim of a shocking bad hat between the eye and that Spire in the real prospect. What is the rusty rim that now intervenes, and confuses the vision of at least one eye? It must be an intoxicated hat that wants to see, too. It is so, for ritualistic choirs strike up, acolytes swing censers dispensing the heavy odor of punch, and the ritualistic rector and his gaudily robed assistants in alb, chasuble, maniple and tunicle, intone a _Nux Vomica_ in gorgeous procession. Then come twenty young clerg...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-11-june-11-1870-9545/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-11-june-11-1870-9545/chapters/1/index.md)