Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-06-21
Mrs. Caudle'S Curtain Lectures.
No. XIII.
Mr.. CAUDLE A BEEN INDUCED TO JOIN.
A PARTY AT NINE Piss.

There, Caudle !; now don't pretend YOU'RE
sleepy for you're not. ] had hard work TO
get you up to bed-you wanted to stay and
of tobacco fumes already. Nice work you
make IN The drawing-roem, putting me to the
blush when ladies' call to see me in the NOR.
ming, and almost cough their lungs up in mas.
~ atmosphere like a sailor boarding house at
Mapping. You smoke for The tooth-ache a.
No you don't Caudle-you haven't got an un-
Sound tooth in your head. Its only an ex.
cuse sir. And yet you make it before the
children, and they know its false, as we'll as
do. Pretty example you set 'em, truly.
They learn to smoke and tell ibs at the same
time. 1t was only the other day | caught the
youngest with his little brogans tilted. I'D on
the fender, and his little lips at work on one
of your old stumps he'd found and lighted,
And he told me that be had the tonth-ache
| whipped him sonndly for it. A pity thai
you hadn't somebody to do as much for you.-
Now, you amt asleep, Caudle, and you shall
hear me.
Now, Caudle, where hare you been all this
afternoon ! Up TO no good, | know. Rolling
at The Royal George7 thought so / knew
you hadn't give up that vile practice knew.
what your word was worth, when you PROM
lsed to give up ninepins, Prettyman made
you go! A pretty man you are for the ia
Their of a family. You're poor wife may beg
You on her Bonded knees to do something for
her, but then you're as obstinate as a mule.
But let one of the "Skylarks'' ask you to do
~anything-no matter how foolish, and awayI
you go, like a slave, TO do his bidding. Il
should like to know, what's to become of you,
if you've no more irmness than that comesI
to? Didn't knoU there acaS ana harm IN til
Yes you did. It's an idle wasting of your
time. Good exercise? If you want to exer-
else, there's the wood pile i; our poor servant
girl has got a dreadful cough. and pain in her
back, and yet she has to labor like a negroI
slave, to split up kindling for the stove, and
you never touched the axe yourself. What
do zoe keep her for! To do women's work
l should think you'd be ashamed of Yourself.
Mr.. Caudle. Then the expense ! I've worm.
led out OF you how much the alley costs, and
the cigars, and ct ~ceteras; and then there's
four. pence for the boy, when you get a nine.
strike-thongh, for TIE matter of that, | don,tI
believe you ever got a nine strike in vnurI
life. You aOere on the soinning side? No
lyon wasn't Mr.. Candle. / wonder YOU amt
afraid the bedpost will not leap up and brain
you where you lie. You needn't think to de.
ceiVe me / rummaged your bresat- pocket, and
found out the bull. A pretty penny you had
to pay, Mr.. Caadle and a pretty figure YOU
made by pitting yourself against a crack roll
Her, who couldn't get less than nine, if he
Oh, | know all about it Hoe do r
.kaop I'll tell you, Mr.. Caudle. NJ wash.
'er-woman's boy sets up the nine. pins at the
ROYAL George, and she tod me ali about il;
and the poor boy is laid up from the wound
he got from one Of rog balls and he says,
where be Qald, au were always sure
10 bit him, unless he siaoi near the pins, on
alley, and it wouldn't lave been proper