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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by the punchinello publishing company, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of United States, for the Southern District of New-York.

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PREFACE

Punchinello, Vol. 1.  No. 1.

(Suggestion:  “Take care of No. 1.”)

Punchinello to the public, greeting: 

His name, punchinello hopes, will not be found a difficult one to articulate.  He flatters himself that it has a smack of grape-juice and olives about it.  It rhymes with “mellow,” which naturally brings us to “good fellow.”.  On occasions punchinello can “bellow,” cut a “tremendous swell,” O, and he never throws away a chance of pocketing the “yellow.”  He would like to rhyme with “swallow;” but alas! it can not, can not be.

And yet, in spite of (or perhaps on account of) PUNCHINELLO’S mellifluous name, much cavil has been brought to bear upon him. (Prepare to receive cavilry.)

Squadrons of well-meaning persons with speaking-trumpets marched to and fro before the sponsors of punchinello, each roaring at them to stop such a name as that, and attend to his suggestion, and his only.

One did not like PUNCHINELLO because it means a “little Punch,” and he—­the speaking-trumpeter—­liked a great deal; and lo! while he spoke, he changed his trumpet for several horns.  Then he was taken with a fit of herpetology in his boots, and sank to advise no more.

Another—­a fellow with an infinite fancy for buffo minstrelsy—­was vociferous that PUNCHINELLO should be called “Tommy Dodd.”  The discussion upon this lasted for three months; but finally, “Tommy Dodd” was rejected on account of the superfluously aristocratic aroma that exhaled from the name.