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Slide set: Father, come home! (story: Chatham Pexton, 40 slides, 1893)

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Slide 6
'Why, my man, what is the matter?'
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Slide 8
'I ain't afraid o' you hurting of me'
Slide 9**
Dr Donald stripped the walls of the paper
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Slide 11
'All right, Robby, there's soap and towel'
Slide 12
'Robby, do you know what God says?'
Slide 13
She's got no mother, poor little mite
Slide 14**
The demon Drink left his seal upon him
Slide 15**
The father took the child
Slide 16
Robby pulled out a bright, new half-crown
Slide 17
Robby's father with his boon companions
Slide 18
The boy gave a great gasping sigh
Slide 19
Stunned and bruised, the boy lay still
Slide 20**
'Hepsy, do I look nice for the doctor?'
Slide 21**
'Oh, great, holy God! it's all true'
Slide 22**
'Oh, Robby, they're real flowers!'
Slide 23**
'Please God, me and Goldie says, 'thank you!''
Slide 24
Dr Donald took the wasted hand in his
Slide 25
'Now I want you to try some grapes'
Slide 26
The doctor turned away, and prepared some medicine
Slide 27
Goldie turned her face to the wall
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Slide 30**
A fair, bright child was seated beside her
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Slide 34
'I say mate,' said the man
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Slide 37
'Goldie, speak to father!'
Slide 38
Goldie's father seized with a long illness
Slide 39
Sometimes he would rush away to his room
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Advertised in
October 1894
The optical magic lantern journal: volume 5 number 65 (October 1894), xiii
Catalogue entries (2)
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
1913
Lantern and slide catalogue 1913-14 (London: Church Army, 1913), 200

“A Temperance story. Shows how drink robs a man of honour and truth, and makes him careless of the welfare of his own children. Suitable for adult Temperance Meetings.”

Other reference
17 August 1893
[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/413/1031-1070
Lucerna ID  3003065

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 14 March 2024

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