der whom they'll have to thank for knowing nothing; whom, indeed, but their father? People who can't feel for their own children ought never to be fathers. go all 4. "But I know why you lent the umbrella. Oh, yes, I know very well. I was going out to tea at dear mother's to-morrow; you knew that, and you did it on purpose. Don't tell me; you hate to have me go there, and take every mean advantage to hinder me. But don't you think it, Mr. Caudle. No, sir; if it comes down in buckets full, I'll the more. No; and I'll not have a cab. Where do you think the money's to come from? got nice high notions at that club of yours. A cab, indeed! Cost me sixteen pence, at least; sixteen pence! two and eight pence, for there's back again. Cabs, indeed! I should like to know who's to pay for 'em; I can't pay for 'em, and I'm sure you can't, if you go on as you do, throwing away your property, and beggaring your children-buying umbrellas. You've do 5. "Do you hear the rain, Mr. Caudle? I say, you hear it? But I don't care; I'll go to mother's to-morrow; I 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 a foolish woman; 'tis you that's the foolish man. You know that I can't wear clogs; and, with no umbrella, the wet's But what I may be sure to give me a cold: it always does. do you care for that? Nothing at all. laid up for what you care, as I dare say I shall; and a pretty doctor's bill there'll be. I hope there will! It will teach you to lend your umbrellas again. I shouldn't wonder if I caught my death: yes, and that's what you lent the umbrella for. Of course! 6. "Nice clothes I shall get, too, trapesing through weather like this. My gown and bonnet will be spoiled quite. Needn't I wear 'em, then? Indeed, Mr. Caudle, I shall wear 'em. No, sir: I'm not going out a dowdy to please you or anybody else. Gracious knows, it isn't often that I step over the threshold; indeed, I might as well be a slave at once,-better, I should say. But when I do go out, Mr. Caudle, I choose to go as a lady. 7. "Oh! that rain! If it isn't enough to break in the windows. Ugh! I do look forward with dread for to-morrow. How I am to go to mother's, I'm sure I can't tell; but if I die, I'll do it. No, sir; I'll not borrow an umbrella: no, and you sha'n't buy one. Mr. Caudle, if you bring home another umbrella, I'll throw it into the street. I'll have my own umbrella, or none at all. 8. "Ha! And it was only last week I had a new nozzle put on that umbrella. I'm sure if I'd known as much as I do now, it might have gone without one. Paying for new nozzles, for other people to laugh at you. Oh! 'tis all very well for you,— you can go to sleep. You've no thought of your poor patient wife and your own dear children; you think of nothing but lending umbrellas! Men, indeed! call themselves lords of the creation! pretty lords, when they can't even take care of an umbrella! 9. "I know that walk to-morrow will be the death of me, but that's what you want; then you may go to your club and do as you like; and then nicely my poor dear children will be used-but then, sir, then you'll be happy. Oh, don't tell me! I know you will: else you'd never have lent the umbrella. You have to go on Thursday about that summons; and, of course, you can't go. No, indeed, you don't go without the umbrella. You may lose the debt, for what I care; 'tis not so bad as spoiling your clothes. Better lose it; people deserve to lose debts who lend umbrellas! 10. "And I should like to know how I'm to go to mother's without the umbrella? Oh! don't tell me that I said I would go; that's nothing to do with it, nothing at all. She'll think I'm neglecting her; and the little money we're to have, we shan't have at all because we've no umbrella. 11. "The children, too (dear things!), they'll be sopping wet; for they sha'n't stay at home; they sha'n't lose their learning; 'tis all their father will leave them, I'm sure. But they shall go to school. Don't tell me I said they shouldn't (you are so aggravating, Caudle; you'd spoil the temper of an angel), they shall go to school; mark that. And if they get their deaths of cold, 'tis not my fault; I didn't lend the umbrella." 1. Borrowed, impose, purpose, notions, trapesing, dowdy, nozzle, neglecting, sopping, aggravating. 2. Who is represented as talking in this extract? Of what is she accusing her husband? How was he trying to impose on her? Did he evidently make remarks now and then? Select three places where he probably spoke, and tell what he said? What is the meaning of " cats and dogs"? What are "clogs"! 1. LXXIII. THE OLD CONTINENTALS. In their ragged regimentals Stood the old Continentals, Yielding not, When the Grenadiers were lunging, Cannon-shot; When the files Of the Isles, From the smoky night encampment, bore the banner of the rampant Unicorn, And grummer, grummer, grummer, rolled the roll And louder, louder, louder, cracked the black gun 3. powder, Cracking amain! Now like smiths at their forges And the "villainous saltpeter" As the swift Storm-drift, |
