Slide set: Only a waif (service of song: W. Rider & Co., 23 slides, 1900)

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Slide 1

Introduction, with Title

Slide 2

The long, hard struggle was almost at an end

Slide 3

He sat on a broken box, and looked wistfully at his wife

Slide 4

'What is it, Molly, do you feel a bit better, now, my lass?'

Slide 5

'Don't cry, Jim,' she said in a faint whisper

Slide 6

'You shall pick the daisies, Danny,' he told the child

Slide 7

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Slide 8

'Stay here, sonny, till Dada comes back'

Slide 9

It was nearly midnight and a drizzly rain had begun to fall

Slide 10

He looked down in the lamplight pityingly upon the tear-bedewed eyes

Slide 11

'I's Danny,' said the child, 'Mammy's little Danny'

Slide 12

But the smell of the drink and the familiar surroundings proved more than he could bear

Slide 13

He was stumbling along the streets of a busy suburb

Slide 14

All his trespasses seemed like a dark cloud round him

Slide 15

It was a little group of open-air workers

Slide 16

He sat down at the back, keeping his eye on the preacher

Slide 17

It's all true what you've been saying, it is in the Book

Slide 18

The young man found the poor wanderer had nowhere to lay his head

Slide 19

One day the mission nurse came to them with a glad look on her face

Slide 20

That afternoon his friends came to see him again

Slide 21

'What?' asked the listeners, bending forward with attentive looks

Slide 22

God bless you for those words

Slide 23

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The optical magic lantern journal: volume 11 number 137 (October 1900), xv

Catalogue entries (4)

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 688

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 82

1912

Catalogue of lantern slides for sale or hire (Manchester: Josiah T. Chapman, 1912), 495

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 306

Lucerna ID 3002834

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