Slide set: Her only son (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 35-43 slides, 1897)

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The old woman was sitting for the last time on her own hearth

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'Who should have my help more than my only son, sir?' she said

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'Don't go, Joanna,' said the neighbours, who had walked with her to the station

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It was her first journey by rail

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'Now, mother,' said the porter, 'is nobody come to meet you'

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'Does anybody know John Fleming?' shouted the driver

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'I couldn't bear to leave you alone with the children,' she said

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He pointed out a staircase too narrow for them to go together

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'John,' she said, sinking down in the only chair

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'Ay!' she said, 'many a time my heart bled for those poor children'

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She lay awake listening to the strange and horrible sounds

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John Fleming sat in the dark after his mother had gone

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He was awakened in the morning by his mother's voice

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Her tears fell over the stunted six-months old baby

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He stood still in the doorway gazing into the room

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13

Her eye was caught by the words Drummond & Co.'s Pale Ales

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'Mother!' he said half angrily, 'I can't bear you looking at me'

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'It's a horrible thing,' thought Joanna, 'to have a sot for a son'

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The letter was there, but the note was gone

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She sat down before the empty grate, with the baby on her knees

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He sank down on his knees beside his dead child

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He went to the Gibraltar Arms and got helplessly drunk

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'Oh! such a fine lady,' cried Ally, 'and she's coming here!'

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'Oh, my lady!' she said, 'don't you know how you get your riches'

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He was greeted by the man behind the counter

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21

He took her by the shoulders and pushed her out upon the staircase

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He pushed her out and slammed the door

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She crouched on the stairs shivering with cold

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The homeless old woman started off on her pilgrimage

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She sank down at last on a door-step

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25

'Hillo! Fleming!' he cried, 'here's your lost mother!'

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Two policemen carried her to the Infirmary

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26a

He leaned against the workhouse in blank despair

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'Your mother!' repeated the porter, 'A precious son you must be'

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He shrunk into the door-way, and drew his knees up to his chin

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29

He had been too deep in thought to hear the quiet footsteps

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The Vicar and John Fleming paced arm in arm together

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30

'No, sir,' he answered, 'I've done nothing but drink for years'

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The matron came to speak to him

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Joanna was sitting up in bed, with a warm shawl round her

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33

'But, oh! mother, won't you say you forgive me?'

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34

He came home every evening as his father did before him

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35

She can visit her now as in days of old

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Lucerna ID 3002234

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 19 May 2023

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