# Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870

Author: Various

Genre: Punchinello

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9885

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Punchinello%2C+Volume+1%2C+No.+17%2C+July+23%2C+1870+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

BLADAMS ushered in two waiters--one Irish and one German--who wore that look of blended long-suffering and extreme weariness of everything eatable, which, in this country, seems inevitably characteristic of the least personal agency in the serving of meals. (There may be lands in which the not essentially revolting art of cookery can be practiced without engendering irritable gloom in the bosoms of its practitioners, and the spreading of tables does not necessarily entail upon the actors therein a despondency almost sinister; but the American kitchen is the home of beings who never laugh, save in that sardonic bitterness of spirit which grimly mocks the climax of human endurance in the bu...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-17-july-23-1870-9885/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-17-july-23-1870-9885/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-17-july-23-1870-9885/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-17-july-23-1870-9885/chapters/3/index.md)