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MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
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I'm to be mistress of my own house? If not, I'd better leave it.
MRS. CAUDLE VISITS THE KITCHEN—"MILLIONS OF BLACK-BEETLES!"
"And the very first night we were here, you know it, the black-beetles came into the kitchen. If the place didn't seem spread all over with a black cloth, I'm a story-teller. What are you coughing at, Mr. Caudle? I see nothing to cough at. But that's just your way of sneering. Millions of black-beetles! And as the clock strikes eight, out they march. What?
