American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper., 1845-04-14

and our dear Mary Anne be forever left an
unprotected maid--and all, MIR. Caudle, because
you will go on lending five pounds"
Mr.. Caudls has lent an acquaintance The family
UmbreNa-,lfrS. Caudle lectures thereon
Bah! That's the third umbrella gone since
Christmas. What were you to do' Why, let
them go home in the rain, to be sure. Pm very
certain there was nothing about him that could
spoil. Take cold, indeed! He doesn't look
like one of the sort to take cold Besides, he'd
have better taken cold than take our only UNI
brella. DO you hear the rain, Mr.. Caudle? |
say, DO you hear the rain' And as I'm alive,
if it isn't Saint Swithin's day! Do you hear it
against the windows? Nonsense; you don't
impose upon me You can't be asleep with
such shower as that! Do you hear it, | say?
Oh, you do hear it! Well, that's pretty flood,
think, to last for six weeks; and no stirring
all the time out of the house. Pooh! don't think
me fool, MIR. Caudle. Don't insult me. He
were born yesterday. AS If anybody ever did
return an umbrella There--do you hear it?
Worse and worse! Cats ard dogs and for six
weeks-aways six weeks. And no umbrella,
| should like to know how the children are
to 60 to school tomorrow. They shan't GO
through such weather, I'm determined. No:
they shall stop at home and never learn any
thng-the blessed creatures!-sOoner than 90
and get wet. And when they grow up, lwon.
der who they'll have to thank for knowing
nothng-who, indeed, but their father People
who can't feel for their own children ought
never to be fathers.
But know why you lent the umbrella
Oh, yes, | know very well. was going out to
tea at dear mothers tomorrow, you knew
that; and you did it Oh purpose. Don't tell me;
you hate me to go there, and take every mean
advantage to hinder me. But don't you think
it, MIR. Caudle. No sir; if it comes down in
buckets full, I'll go all the more. No; and
won't have a cab Where do you think the
moneys to come from2 You've got nice high
notions at that club of yours! A cab, indeed!
Cost me sixteen pence at least-sixteen pence!
-two-and-e -eightpence, for there's back again!
Cabs, indeed! can't pay for 'em: and Pm
sure you can't, if you go on as you do; throw
ing away your property and beggaring your
children-buying umbrellas!
Do you hear the rain, Mr.. Caudle? say,
do you hear iii But | don't care-l'll go to
mothers tomorrow: | will; and what's more,
I'll 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, the vets sure to give me a cold
it always does. But what do you care for
that? Nothing at all, may be laid up for
what you care, as | dare say shall-and a
pretty DOCTORS bill there'll be. ] hope there
will! II will teach you to lend your umbrel-
las again. shouldn't wonder if caught my
death; yes, and that's what you lent the um-
brella for. OF course!
Nice clothes shall get, too, trapesing thro'
weather like this. My gown and bonnet will
be spoilt quite. Needn't | wear 'em? Indeed,
Mr.. Caudle, shall wear 'em. No, sir, Pm not
going out dowdy to please you or anybody
else Gracious knows. it isn't often that step
over the thresholds indeed, might as well be
slave at once, better, | should say. But
when do go out, Mr.. Caudle, choose to 90 as
lady. Oh! that rain-if it isn't enough to
break in windows.
Ugh! do look forward with dread for to-
morrow! How am to go to mothers Pm sure
can't tell. But if | die, III do it. No,
With great emphasis) MIR. Caudle, if you
bring home another umbrella, I'll throw it in
the street, III have my own umbrella, Or
none at ALL
Ha! and it was only last week had new
nozzle put TO that umbrella. Pm sure, if I'D
have known as mitch as do now, it might have
gone without one for me. Paying for new
lOT otucf pcoplC W u Joo' oh
it's all very well for you-you can go to sleep
You have no thought for your poor wife, and
your own dear children. You think of no
thing but lending umbrellas!
Men, indeed!-Call themselves lords Of the
creaton!-pretty lords, when they can't ever
take care of an umbrella
| 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 yol
like--and then, nicely my poor dear children
will be used-but then, sir, then you'll be hap
py! Oh, don't tell me. ! know you will
: Else you'd never have lent the umbrella!
You have to 20 on Thursday about tha
summons; and, of course, you can't CO. No
) indeed, you don't 90 without an umbrella
You may lose the debt for what | care
won't be so much as spelling the clothes-bet
ter lose it.; people deserve to lose debts VIII
lend umbrellas
And should like to know how I'm TO GO t
mothers without the umbrella? Oh, don't te
. me that said ,could go-that's nothing to d
with 1t; nothing at all. She'll think Pm nc
glecting her, and the little money we were
have, we shant have at all-because we've n
" umbrella,
The children, too! Dear things! They
!" be sopping wet: for they shan't stop home
they shan't loose their learning; it's all the
:; fatler will leave 'em, Pm sure. But they sha
go to school, Don'ttell me said they should'n N
you are so aggravating, Caudle; you'd spo
the temper of an angel. They shall go
: school; mark that. And if they get their deatl
a Of cold, it's not my fault didn't lend Il
u umbrella.
9 "Here" says Caudle iii his MS, 81 fell aslee
! and dreamt that the sky was turned into gret
9 calico, with whalebone ribs; that, in fact, Il
II whole world revolved under tremendous un
9 brella!"
u BALTIMORE AND ONO RAILROAD. The b
before the Pennsylvania House of Represent
/ tives, in favor of this road, passed through Il
e Committee of the Whole on Friday, when