Introduction

Lecture 1: Mr. Caudle has lent five pounds to a friend

Lecture 2: Mr. Caudle has been at a tavern with a friend, and is “enough to poison a woman” with tobacco smoke

Lecture 3: Mr. Caudle joins a club – “The Skylarks”

Lecture 4: Mr. Caudle has been called from his bed to bail Mr. Prettyman from the watch-house

Lecture 5: Mr. Caudle has remained downstairs till past one, with a friend

Lecture 6: Mr. Caudle has lent an acquaintance the family umbrella

Lecture 7: Mr. Caudle has ventured a remonstrance on his day’s dinner: cold mutton and no pudding – Mrs Caudle defends the cold shoulder

Lecture 8: Caudle has been made a mason – Mrs Caudle indignant and curious

Lecture 9: Mr Caudle has been to Greenwich fair

Lecture 10: On Mr. Caudle’s shirt buttons

Lecture 11: Mrs Caudle suggests the her dear mother should “come and live with them”

Lecture 12: Mr. Caudle having come home a little late, declares that henceforth “he will have a key”

Lecture 13: Mrs Caudle has been to see her dear mother – Caudle on the “joyful occasion”, has given a party and issued a card of invitation

Lecture 14: Mrs Caudle thinks it “high time” that the children should have summer clothing

Lecture 15: Mr. Caudle again stayed out late. Mrs Caudle, at first injured and violent, melts

Lecture 16: Baby is to be christened; Mrs Caudle canvasses the merits of probable godfathers

Lecture 17: Caudle in the course of the day has ventured to question the economy of “washing at home”

Lecture 18: Caudle, whilst walking with his wife, has been bowed to by a younger and even prettier woman than Mrs Caudle

Lecture 19: Mrs Caudle thinks “it would look well to keep their wedding-day”