# Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870

Author: Various

Genre: Punchinello

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10033

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Punchinello%2C+Volume+1%2C+No.+25%2C+September+17%2C+1870+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The latest transient guest at the Roach House--a hotel kept on the entomological plan in Bumsteadville--was a gentleman of such lurid aspect as made every beholder burn to know whom he could possibly be. His enormous head of curled red hair not only presented a central parting on top and a very much one-sided parting and puffing-out behind, but actually covered both his ears; while his ruddy semi-circle of beard curled inward, instead of out, and greatly surprised, if it did not positively alarm, the looker-on, by appearing to remain perfectly motionless, no matter how actively the stranger moved his jaws. This ball of improbable inflammatory hair and totally independent face rested in a...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-25-september-17-1870-10033/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punchinello-volume-1-no-25-september-17-1870-10033/chapters/1/index.md)