MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES
By “PUNCH.”
With Illustrations by JOHN LEECH
PHILADELPHIA: CAREY AND HART.
1845.
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CONTENTS
LECTURE I. MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT FIVE POUNDS TO AFRIEND.
LECTURE II. MR. CAUDLE HAS BEEN AT A TAVERN WITHA FRIEND.
LECTURE III. MR. CAUDLE JOINS A CLUB,—“THESKYLARKS.”
LECTURE IV. MR. CAUDLE HAS BEEN CALLED FROM HISBED TO BAIL MR. PRETTYMAN FROM THE WATCH-HOUSE.
LECTURE V. MR. CAUDLE HAS REMAINED DOWN STAIRSTILL PAST ONE, WITH A FRIEND.
LECTURE VI. MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT AN ACQUAINTANCETHE FAMILY UMBRELLA. MRS. CAUDLE LECTURES THEREON.
LECTURE VIII. CAUDLE HAS BEEN MADE A MASON.—MRS.CAUDLE INDIGNANT AND CURIOUS.
LECTURE IX. MR. CAUDLE HAS BEEN TO GREENWICHFAIR.
LECTURE X. ON MR. CAUDLE'S SHIRT-BUTTONS.
LECTURE XI. MRS. CAUDLE SUGGESTS THAT HER DEARMOTHER SHOULD “COME AND LIVE WITH THEM.”
MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
LECTURE I. MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT FIVE POUNDS TO A FRIEND.
YOU ought to be very rich, Mr. Caudle. I wonder who'd lend you fivepounds? But so it is: a wife may work and may slave! Ha, dear! the manythings that might have been done with five pounds! As if people picked upmoney in the street! But you always were a fool, Mr. Caudle! I 've wanteda black satin gown these three years, and that five pounds would havepretty well