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MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
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deaths of cold, it's not my fault—I didn't lend the umbrella."


"At length," writes Caudle, "I fell asleep; and dreamt that the sky was turned into green calico, with whalebone ribs; that, in fact, the whole world turned round under a tremendous umbrella!"