Slide set: The little hero: new series (song: Bamforth & Co., 7 slides, 1896)

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Slide 1**

From Liverpool across the Atlantic, the good ship floating o'er the deep

Slide 2**

One day he comes up from below deck, a-grasping a lad by the arm

Slide 3**

An' the mate asks the boy pretty roughly how he dared for to be stowed away

Slide 4**

'An',' says he, in a voice clear and pretty, 'My stepfather brought me aboard'

Slide 5**

Then the mate pulled his watch from his pocket, just as if he'd been drawing his knife

Slide 6**

An' the little chap kneels on the deck there, an' his hands he clasps o'er his breast

Slide 7**

Off his feet was the lad suddenly lifted, and clasped to the mate's rugged breast

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (3)

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 5

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 20

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 151

Lucerna ID 3002635

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 20 March 2024

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Slide set: The little hero: new series (song: Bamforth & Co., 7 slides, 1896)