# Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870

Author: Various

Genre: Punchinello

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9877

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Punchinello%2C+Volume+1%2C+No.+16%2C+July+16%2C+1870+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Pond at Bumsteadville is sufficiently near the turnpike to be readily reached from the latter, and, if mentioned in the advertisement of a summer boarding-house, would be called Lake Duckingham, on account of the fashionable ducks resorting thither for bathing and flirtation in the season. When July's sun turns its tranquil mirror to hues of amber and gold, the slender mosquito sings Hum, sweet Hum, along its margin; and when Autumn hangs his livery of motley on the trees, the glassy surface breathes out a mist wherefrom arises a spectre, with one hand of ice and the other of flame, to scatter Chills and Fever. Strolling beside this picturesque watering-place in the dusk, the Gospeler...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-16-july-16-1870-9877/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-16-july-16-1870-9877/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-16-july-16-1870-9877/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-16-july-16-1870-9877/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-16-july-16-1870-9877/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-16-july-16-1870-9877/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-16-july-16-1870-9877/chapters/6/index.md)