Mississippi Democrat., 1845-04-30

got nice high notions at that club Of yours
A cab, indeed! Cost me sixieenpence at
least -sixleenpence!-two-n eightpence
for there's back againl Cabs, indeed! !
should like 10 know who's to pay for 'eml
I can't pay for 'em; and I'm sure you
can't, if you go on as you do; throwing
away your property, and beggaring your
chlldren--buying umbrellas!
"Do you hear the rain, Mr.. Caudle2 ]
say, do you hear il? But don't care-Tll
90 to mothers tomorrow: | will; and
what's more, III walk every step Of the
way,--and you know that will give me my
death. Don't call me foolish woman
it's you that's the foolish man. You know
can't wear clogs; and with no umbrella,
that's sure TO give me cold--it always
does. But what do you care for that2 Moth.
ing at all. may be laid up for what you
care, as / dare say shall--and pretty
Doctors bill there'll be. hope there will
Ii will teach you 10 lend your umbrella
again. shouldn't wonder if | caught my
death; yes: and that't what you lent the
umbrella for. OF course.
"Nice clothes, shall get too, trapesing
through weather like this. My gown and
bonnet will be spoilt. Needn't | wear
'em then? Indeed, Mr.. Caudle, | shall
were 'em. No, sir, Pm not gowing out a
dowdy to please you or anybody else.--
Gracious knows! it isn't often that | step
over the threshold indeed, might as well
be slave at once,-better, should say.
But when do go out, Mr.. Caudle, | choose
to 60 as lady. Oh! that rain--if il isn't
enough 10 break in the windows.
"Ugh! do look forward with dread for
morrow! How | am TO go 10 mothers
Pm sure can't tell, But if | die, III do
it. No, sir; won't borrow an umbrella.
No; and you shan't buy one. ( With great
emphasis.) Mr.. Caudle, if you bring home
another umbrella, I'll throw it in the street.
l'll have my own umbrella or none at all,
"Ha! and il was only last week had a
new nozzle put 10 that umbrella. Pm sure
| if I'd have known as much as do now, it
might have gone without one for me-
Paying for new nozzles; for other people
to laugh at you. Oh, IT'S all well for you
l-you can go to sleep. You've no thought
of your poor patient wife, and your owr
dear children. You think of nothing bu
lending umbrellas!
"Men, indeed!--Call themselves lords
of creation !--pretty lords W en- they CAM
ltake care of an umbrella!
81 know that walk Tomorrow will be
the death of me. But that's what you want
then you may 60 to your club, and do as
you like--and then, nicely my poor dear
children will be used-but then, sir, then
you'll be happy. Oh, don't tell me! know
you will. Else you'd never have lent the
umbrella
"You have 10 60 on Thursday about that
summons; and, Of course, you can't go
lNo, indeed, you don't 60 without the um.
brella. You may lose the debt for what
care--it won't be SO much as spelling your
clothes--better lose it: people deserve tc
lose debts who lend umbrellas.
"And should like 10 know how Pm 10
20 to mothers without the umbrella2 Oh
don'ttell me that said mould go--that'
nothing to do with it; nothing at ALL
She'll think Pm neglecting her, and the
little money we were to have, we shan
have at all--because we've no umbrella.
"The children, tool Dear things! They'll
be stopping wet: for they shan'l stop a
home--they shan't lose their learning; ~
all their father will leave 'em, I'm sure.--
But they shall go to school. Don't tell mi
!, said they shouldn't: you are SO aggra
vating, Caudle, you'd spoil the temper 0
an angel. They shall go 10 school; mari
I that. And if they get their deaths 0
cold, IFS not my fault--f didn't lend tn
umbrella"
J, aTIere," says Caudle in bis MS, 81 fel
asleep; and dreamt that the sky was turn
ed into green calico, with whaIebone ribs
, that, in fact, the whole world reyolyed un
} der tremendous umbrella Punch.