The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-12-21
Mr.. Caudle is Made a Mason---Mrs,
CaudIe Wanted to Find Out.

Mr.. Caudle was made Mason, and
Mr.. Caudle, burned, SCARED, fatigued
and filed with a good supper, taken at
late hour, went home with fear and
trembling and endeavored to get to the
back side of the bed without awakening
the Goods last best gift to man, who
was slumbering in front, aud whom he
supposed to be sleeping, but Caudle was
mistaken, for as be slipped beneath the
bed drapery, the lady said:
$50 you are there, are youH Well, 1
only wish 1 was Queen for day or two,
I'd put an end to Freemasonry and all
such trumpery, l know.
"Now, come, Caudle, don't let's quar-
rel. Eh You're not in pain, dear ?
What's it all about2 What are you
lying laughing there atP But I'm
fool to trouble my head about you.
"And you're not going to let me
know the secret, eh? You mean to say
you're notH Now, Caudle, you know
it's hard matter to put me in passion
not that care about the secret itself;
no, l wouldn't give button to know it,
for it's all nonsense, I'm sure. 1t isn't
the secret care about, it's the slight
Mr.. Caudle it's the studied insult |
that man pays to his wife when he
thinks of going through the world
keeping something to himself-that he
won't let her know Man and wife
one =? indeed l should like to know
how that can be, when a mans q Mason
when he keeps a secret that sets him
and his wife apart2 Ha you men
make the laws, and so you take good
care to have all the best of EN- to your
selves otherwise woman ought to be
allowed divorce when a man becomes
a Mason. When he's got sort of cor
ner cupboard in his heart-a secret
place in his mind-that his poor wife
isn't allowed to rummage | Caudle
you slant close your eyes for q week
no, you shan't-unless you tell me some
of it. Come there's good creature
there's a love. I'm sure, Caudle,
wouldn't refuse you anything, and you
know it, or ought to know it, by this
time. l only wish l had a secret To
whom should l think Of confding il
but to my dearest husbandP I should
be miserable to keep it to myself, and
you know it. Now; Caudle | Was
there ever such a man I'll cry A
man, indeed |! A brute = yes, Mr.
Caudle, an unfeeling, brutal creature
when you might oblige me and you
won't. I'm sure l don't object to your
being Mason not at all, Caudle;
say it's very good thing /; 1 dare say
it is-it's only your making (
secret of it that vexes me. But you'll
tell me-you'll tell your Margaret
You won'tl You're a wretch' Mr.
Caudle. y
But I know why; oh, yes, I can tell
The fact is, you're ashamed to let me
know what fool they've been making
of you. That's it. You, at your timt
of life-the father of a family.
should be ashamed of myself, Caudle
And I suppose you'll be goiag to wha
you call your lodge every night now
Lodge, indeed. Pretty place it mus
be, where they don't admit women
Nice goiugs on, dare say. Then yor
call one another Brethren | I'm sure
you'd relations enough, you didn't wan
any more. But l know what all thi
Masonry's about. It's only an excuse
to get away from your wives and fam
lilies, that you may feast and drink to
gether, that's all. That's the secret.
And so abuse women--as if they Wer
inferior to nimals, aud not to be trusted
That's the secret, and nothing else.-
Now, Caudle, don't let Us quarrel.
Yes, 1 know you're in pain. Still
} Caudle, my love Caudle'l Dearest,
say Caudlel" 6-u
81 recOllect nothing more" says eau
die, "for I had eaten hearty supper
aud somehow became oblivious."