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Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures.

LECTURE I.

MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT FIVE POUNDS TO A FRIEND.
"You

MRS. CAUDLE'S DEAR CHILDREN.

ought to be very rich, Mr. Caudle. I wonder who'd lend you five pounds? But so it is: a wife may work and may slave! Ha, dear! the many things that might have been done with five pounds. As if people picked up money in the street! But you always were a fool, Mr. Caudle! I've wanted a black satin gown these three years, and that five pounds would have entirely bought it. But it's no matter how I go,—not at all. Everybody says I don't