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    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870
    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870
    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870
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    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870

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      Project Gutenberg's Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870, by Various

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      Title: Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870

      Author: Various

      Release Date: December 23, 2005 [EBook #9658]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCHINELLO, VOL. 1, NO. 13 ***

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      Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870

      PUNCHINELLO

      SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1870.

      PUBLISHED BY THE

      PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY,

      83 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.

      THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD.

      AN ADAPTATION.

      BY ORPHEUS C. KERR.

      CHAPTER V.

      MR. MCLAUGHLIN AND FRIEND.

      JOHN BUMSTEAD, on his way home along the unsteady turnpike—upon which he is sure there will be a dreadful accident some day, for want of railings—is suddenly brought to an unsettled pause in his career by the spectacle of Old Mortarity leaning against the low fence of the pauper burial-ground, with a shapeless boy throwing stones at him in the moonlight. The stones seem never to hit the venerable JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, and at each miss the spry monkey of the moonlight sings Sold again, and casts another missile still further from the mark. One of these goes violently to the nose of Mr. BUMSTEAD, who, after a momentary enjoyment of the evening fireworks thus lighted off, makes a wrathful rush at the playful child, and lifts him from the ground by his ragged collar, like a diminished suit of Mr. GREELEY'S customary habiliments.

      Miserable snipe, demands BUMSTEAD, eyeing his trophy gloomily, and giving him a turn or two as though he were a mackerel under inspection, what are you doing to that gooroleman?

      Oh, come now! says the lad, sparring at him in the air, you just lemme be, or I'll fetch you a wipe in the jaw. I ain't doing nothink; and he's werry good to me, he is.

      Mr. BUMSTEAD drops the presumptuous viper, but immediately seizes him by an ear and leads him to MCLAUGHLIN, whom he asks: Do you know this insect?

      SMALLEY, says MCLAUGHLIN, with a nod.

      Is that the name of the sardine?

      Blagyerboots, adds MCLAUGHLIN.

      Shine 'em up, red hot, explains the boy. I'm one of them fellers. Here he breaks away and hops out again into the road, singing:

        "Áina, maina, mona, Mike,

        Bassalona, bona, strike!

        Hay, way, crown, rack,

        Hallico, ballico, we—wo—wack!"

      —which he evidently intends as a kind of Hitalian; for, simultaneously, he aims a stone at JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, grazes Mr. BUMSTEAD'S whiskers instead, and in another instant a sound of breaking glass is heard in the distance.

      Peace, young scorpion! says Mr. BUMSTEAD, with a commanding gesture. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, let me see you home. The road is too unsteady to-night for an old man like you. Let me see you home, far as my house, at least.

      Thank you, sir, I'd make better time alone. When you came up, sir, Old Mortarity was meditating on this bone-farm, says Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, pointing with a trowel, which he had drawn from his pocket, into the pauper burial-ground. "He was thinking of the many laid here when the Alms-House over yonder used to be open as a Alms-House. I've patched up all these graves, as well as them in the Ritual churchyard, and know 'em all, sir. Over there, Editor of Country Journal; next, Stockholder in Erie; next, Gentleman who Undertook to be Guided in His Agriculture by Mr. GREELEY'S 'What I Know about Farming;' next, Original Projector of American Punch; next, Proprietor of Rural Newspaper; next, another Projector of American Punch—indeed, all the rest of that row is American Punches; next, Conductor of Rustic Daily; next, Manager of Italian Opera; next, Stockholder in Morris and Essex; next, American Novelist; next, Husband

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