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Slide set: Self-made fetters: a temperance story in verse (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1893)

Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1**
Very, very slowly was a toper going from the Mermaid Tavern where he spent his life
Slide 2**
In his zigzag progress came he 'gainst a pillar standing by the pavement, with a startling shock
Slide 3**
With a desperate grasping to the pillar clinging, lest his nerveless body in the gutter fall
Slide 4**
With his trembling fingers his great coat unfolding, he with mighty effort buttoned it quite fast
Slide 5**
But to his deep horror vainly tried to turn he. Held to that fell pillar by some magic power
Slide 6**
In his mind excited came the wildest fancies. -- Had the electric currents from those singing wires
Slide 7**
'Help!' he cried, 'Policeman! save me from this hobble, even if your duty makes you run me in
Slide 8**
Vainly called he others as they went by mocking at his frantic efforts as he writhed and swore
Slide 9**
'Can't you see, poor fellow, what is just the matter? You your coat have buttoned right around the post!'
** there are alternative versions or views of this slide
Other related organisations

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1893-1914 (item ref. 575)

in stock of Walter Tyler, 1909 (item ref. 543)

Main type of image
life model
Main usage of set
recitation
Date of first manufacture
1893
Reading or song

M.B. Moorhouse, ‘Self made fetters: a temperance story in verse’ in Short lantern readings 17 (1893)

Related slide set

see also [Two drunk men meet in street] (story: 'Maker 24', at least 7 slides, n.d.)

Collections

16 slides known to exist in private collection

9 slides known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID  3002118

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 17 September 2021

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