Slide set: The honey stealers (story: York & Son, 8 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1

In high glee Tommy and Billy go honey-stealing

Slide 2**

Slide 3

They have reason never to forget it again

Slide 4**

On arriving home, the father tries the cold water cure, but in vain

Slide 5**

To add to their misery, they cannot put their potatoes into their mouths

Slide 6**

They get no better till the stings are extracted

Slide 7**

The parts are soothed by the apothecary's skill

Slide 8

And in bed they resolve never again to go honey-stealing

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (6)

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 63

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 114

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 124

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 8

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 13

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 63

Other reference

1888

Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 288

“An account of two lads who go honey stealing, and forget that bees have stings. After trial of the water cure, and the discovery of inability to swallow potatoes, they resort to the apothecary, and in bed resolve never to steal honey again.”

Lucerna ID 3001915

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 March 2024

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