# Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870

Author: Various

Genre: Punchinello

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10015

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Punchinello%2C+Volume+1%2C+No.+19%2C+August+6%2C+1870+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The pauper burial-ground toward which they now progress in a rather high-stepping manner, or--to vary the phrase--toward which their steps are now very much bent, is not a favorite resort of the more cheerful village people after nightfall. Ask any resident of Bumsteadville if he believed in ghosts, and, if the time were mid-day and the place a crowded grocery store, he would fearlessly answer in the negative; (just the same as a Positive philosopher in cast-iron health and with no thunder shower approaching would undauntedly deny a Deity!) but if any resident of Bumsteadville should happen to be caught near the country editor's last home after dark, he would get over that part of his roa...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-19-august-6-1870-10015/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-19-august-6-1870-10015/chapters/1/index.md)