Punchinello
For the purpose of preventing an inconvenient rush of literary tuft-hunters and sight-seers thither next summer, a fictitious name must be bestowed upon the town of the Ritualistic church. Let it stand in these pages as Bumsteadville. Possibly it was not known to the Romans, t...
For the purpose of preventing an inconvenient rush of literary tuft-hunters and sight-seers thither next summer, a fictitious name must be bestowed upon the town of the Ritualis...
2. Chapter 2Accepting the New American Cyclopaedia as a fair standard of stupidity--although the prejudice, perhaps, may arise rather from the irascibility of the few using it as a referenc...
3. Chapter 3PETER _devotes himself to the virtuous task of insulting every person in the room, thereby proving how much superior a cow-boy from New Hampshire is to the wretched resident of...
4. Chapter 4_Enter_ PETER. "Jewhillikins! This is a nice garden. What pesky villains all these people must be, considerin' that they wear good clothes and don't break the furnitoor. There's...
5. Chapter 5_Enter_ EVERYBODY. _A quadrille is formed._ PETER _dances and falls over everybody else. The quadrille ends._ PETER _rises and remarks, "Jewhillikins." He goes out and returns,...
6. Chapter 6PELLEAS then, when all the flies were gone, Sat faithful on his horse, upon the lawn That skirts the castle moat; and thought the dame, For want of pluck, could never give him b...