Slide set: The Mallee scrub: a true story of three children who were lost in the Australian bush (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 24 slides, 1887)

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And Johnny, my bairn, take the hatchet with thee

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Away went the children, with merry good-bye

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Oh! there are the banks of the evergreen broom

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Then all three together would cross o'er the brook

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But Frankie is sleepy and wants to go home

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She struggled with Frankie, and he with the broom

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Full heavily burden'd, their little limbs ache

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Confused and confounded, a moment they stood

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Kneel down, brother Johnny, and lift up your hands

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They sleep there together, the three little lambs

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Catalogue entries (7)

1891

Catalogue of photographic lantern transparencies and apparatus: season 1891-2 (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1891), 34

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 12-13

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 118

1901

Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 41

“With Illustrations from Life Models.”

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 16

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 432

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 8-9

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), 296

“An Australian story of two children sent out by their mother to gather firewood. They get lost, are searched for and finally discovered.”

Lucerna ID 3002029

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 March 2024

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Slide set: The Mallee scrub: a true story of three children who were lost in the Australian bush (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 24 slides, 1887)