Slide set: The curse of drink: a temperance recitation in verse (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1892)

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Slide 1

And tea being o'er, beside the fire they'd sit, / And she would sew, while Tom would read a bit

Slide 2

Three years roll'd on, and, as is oft the case, / This little family grew in numbers and in grace

Slide 3

About this time poor Tom began to go / And get his glass of beer, just one, you know

Slide 4

Thus Tom, though he was only a beginner, / Prided himself on being a splendid sinner

Slide 5

The mother sits, and silently is weeping / While on her knee a little one is sleeping

Slide 6

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Slide 7

He reels a-pace and falls upon the floor, / Curses himself, his wife, and speaks no more

Slide 8

Well, all this while the wife, with half-crazed head, / Glares on the two dear loved ones now laid dead

Slide 9

A drunken brawl, in which a fellow-man / Had smashed his head in with an ale-house can

Catalogue entries (4)

1898

[Wrench catalogue 1898] (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 466

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 96

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 457

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 37

Other reference

15 June 1892

[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/408/305-308

Lucerna ID 3000784

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 17 September 2021

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Slide set: The curse of drink: a temperance recitation in verse (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1892)