Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-04-10
MRS. CAUDLES CURTAIN LECTURES.
LECTURE L.
MR.. cAuDLE HAS LENT FIVE POUNDS TO
FRIEND.


MIR. cAuDLE HAS LENT FIVE POUNDS TO
FRIEND.
! "You ough, to be very rich, Mr.. Caudle.
wonder who'd lend you five pounds. Blu
so it is: wife may work and NAV 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 al.
ways were fool, Mr.. Caudle I've wanted
black satin gown these three years, and tha,
five pounds would have pretty well bought il
But it's no matter how go-not at all. Ev-
erybody says don't dress as becomes your
wlle-and ] don't; but what's that to Won.
MIR. Caudle I? Nothing. Oh no. you can
have fine feelings for everybody but those be-
longing TO you. ] wish people knew you, as
do-,ha's all. You like to be called liber
ai-and your poor family pays for l.:
All the girls want bonnets, and when
they're ioget 'em | can't tell. Half five pounds
would have bought 'em-but now they must
go without. Of course they belong TO YOU ;
and anybody but your own flesh and blood,
Mr.. Caudle
! "The man called for the wa,er-rate. to-
day but should like to know how people
are TO pay taxes, who throw awav five pounds
to every fellow that asks them.
"Perhaps you don't know that Jack, this
morning, knocked his shuttle-cock through
his bedroom window. | was going to send
for the glazier to mend it but after YOU lent
the five pounds was sure we couldn't afford
it. On no! the window must go as it is :;
and pretty weather for dear child 10 sleep
with broken window. He's got n cold
already on his lungs, and shouldn't at all
wonder ii that broken window settled him
II the dear boy dies, his death will be upon
his fathers head for I'm sure we can't now
pay TO mend windows. We might though.
and do good many more things, if people
didn't throw away their five pounds.
"Next Tuesday, the fre-insurance is due.
should like to know how IFS to be paid |!
Why, 1t can't be paid at all. The FIVE pounds
would have just done it-and now, insurance
is out OF the question. And there never were
SO many fires as there are now. shall never
close my eyes all night---but what's that TO
you, so people can call you liberal, Mr.. eau
ole Your wife and children may all he
burnt alive i'll their beds-as all of us to GER
tainty shall be, for the insurance must drop.
And alter we've insured for SO many years |!
but how, should like to know, are people 10
insure who make ducks and brakes of their
five pounds
y did think we might go to Margate this
summer There's poor little Caroline, Pm
sure she wants the sea. But no, dear crea-
ture she must stop at home-all of us must
stop at home-she'l! go into consumption,
there's no doubt of that yes-sweet little
angei-Fve made up my mind to lose her,
now. The child might have been saved but
people can't save their children and throw
away their five pounds, 100.
! Whiie you were lending that FIVE pounds, the
dog ran out of the shop. You know, never
let 1t 60 into the street, for fear it should be
ont by some mad dog, and come home and
bite all the children. 1t wouldn't now at all
astonlsh me If the animal was to come back
with the hydroplobia, and give it to all The
family. However, what's Your family to YOU.
so you can play the liberal creature with five
pounds?
"Do you hear that shutter, how it's bang
ing 10 and fro? Yes-l know villa, i, wants
as well as you, it wants new fastening. I
was going 10 send for the blacksmith to-day.
But now it's out of the question now it must
bang OF nights, since you've thrown away five
pounds.
swell, things are come to pretty pass
This is the first night ever made my supper
OF roast beef without pickles. But who is
to afford pickles, when folks are always lend
ing five pounds
Tia! there's the SCOT falling down the
chimney If hate the smell Of anything, it's
the smell of SCOT And you know it; but
what are my feelings to you? Sweep the
chimney! Yes, it's all very fine to say,
sweep the chimney--but how are chimnevs
TO be swept--how are they to be paid for
! by people who don't take care of their five
pounds
| do You hear the mice running about the
room hear them. If they were only to
drag you out Of bed, it would be no matter.
Bet trap for them Yes IFS easy enough
10 say-seta trap for I'm. But how is people
to afford the cheese, when every day they
lose five pounds
SHARK ! I'm sure there's a noise down
stairs 1t wouldn't at all surprise me if there
were thieves in the house. We'll, il NAV be
the Cal but thieves are pretty sure TO come
In some night. There's a wretched fastening
TO the back door; but these are not times 10
afford bolts and bars, when fools won't take
care Of their five pounds.
MARY Anne oughtto have gone 10 the dentist
tomorrow. She wants three teeth taken out.
Now it can't be done. Three teeth tina. quite
disfgure the child's mouth. But there they
must stop, and spoil the sweetest face that
was ever made. Otherwise she'd have been
a wife for lord. Now, when she grows up,
who'll have her? Nobody. We shall die
and leave her alone and unprotected in the
world. But what do you care for that
Nothing so you can squauder away five
pounds.
Sand now, see Mr.. Caudle, what misery
you've brought upon your wretched family
! can have satin gown-the girls can't have