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Slide set: The road to Heaven (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 7-9 slides, 1891)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1
So poor little Mike is sleeping the last long sleep of all
Slide 2
Cuddling close together, crouched on a big stone seat
Slide 3**
He'd a drunken father and mother, who sent him out to beg
Slide 4**
'That there's one road to 'eaven,' he said, as he pointed down
Slide 5**
When he seemed to lose his balance, gave a short, shrill cry, and fell
Slide 5a**
With a thud on the stonework under; then splash in the Thames went Mike
Slide 5b**
A boat put off from the landing, and they dragged his body out
Slide 6**
When they brought him here he was senseless, but slowly the child came round
Slide 7**
Then to the kind old doctor, 'Please, are you God?' he said
** there are alternative versions or views of this slide
Other references (3)
26 June 1891
25 July 1891
13 November 1891
Lucerna ID  3002625

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 10 March 2015

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