Slide set: Won by a child (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 41-46 slides, 1894)

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Slide 1

'Take my advice, my lad, and keep clear of the Jarvis' lot'

Slide 2*

Slide 3

Three weeks ago he was selling matches in the street

Slide 4

'If I had him here I'd kill him,' he said to himself in anger

Slide 5

Jarvis came sauntering to the hot potato stall where Davie sat

Slide 6*

Jarvis sat down beside Davie whilst the potatoes were devoured

Slide 7

The lights and the singing seemed half to intoxicate him

Slide 8

Jarvis asked him to come and see the crowd

Slide 9

Just then a gentleman seized hold of his arm, shaking him

Slide 10

The policeman had Davie down on the pavement

Slide 11

Davie was marched off to the police station

Slide 12

Davie peeped through the entrance gates of a handsome villa

Slide 12a*

He found himself before a deep bay window

Slide 13

A boy lay upon a couch, comfortably wrapped in a skin rug

Slide 14

'You mustn't come tramping about the front garden,' he said

Slide 15

'Why, this is the young thief who stole my purse'

Slide 16*

Slide 17

Slide 18

He looked up gladly as his father came in

Slide 19

His father lifted him gently on to his knee and pressed him close

Slide 20

He curled himself up on the stone seat above the river

Slide 21

He saw before him the bent figure of an aged woman

Slide 22

'I'm glad you've come,' said Davie, 'I likes company'

Slide 23

'But you'll be hungry to-morrow, and then you'll want it,' said Davie

Slide 24

'Who's the Lord? do you mean the Lord Mayor?' asked Davie

Slide 25

'You say it after me, and I'll teach you the Lord's Prayer'

Slide 26

'She's gone to sleep, sure enough,' said Davie

Slide 27

The policeman found them. Davie was asleep and the old woman was dead

Slide 28

'I want you to take this medicine for Master Wilfred'

Slide 29

Dr Joyce declared he was a gaol-bird, and objected

Slide 30

Davie had been at his post more than a year and was now trusted

Slide 31

'Willie likes a chat with you; go up and stay with him,' said the Doctor

Slide 32

'You telling him! You teach a gentleman's son!'

Slide 33

A happy boy was Davie when Wilfred's little white hands lay in his own

Slide 34

Miss Joyce met him at the gate. 'Do find him for us, Davie,' she said

Slide 35

The doctor tore a leaf from his pocket-book and wrote on it

Slide 36

The two doctors stood beside little Willie's bed

Slide 37

'Don't cry, papa,' and the little hands felt for his face

Slide 38

Davie was standing at the gate waiting to hear about Wilfred

Slide 39

When he regained his senses he was weak as a child

Slide 40

The Bible was open in the doctor's hands, and Davie heard him read

Slide 41

'Davie,' said the doctor, 'do you know I owe you something'

Slide 42

Dr Meadows called Davie to him and persuaded him

Slide 43

The little fellow knelt down in his garret and asked the Lord to lead him

Slide 44*

Davie looked up to the silver moon and thought of Wilfred

Slide 45

The boy knelt beside the doctor's bed and told him he would stay

Number of slides

41 minimum, 46 maximum (5 optional slides marked * in list)

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of Gardner & Co. [1891-1920], dates unknown

in stock of Scottish National Sabbath School Union, dates unknown

in stock of Scottish Sunday School Union, dates unknown

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1894-1914 (item ref. 738)

in stock of Wrench & Son, 1898

in stock of North of England Temperance League, 1906 (item ref. 127)

in stock of Walter Tyler, 1909 (item ref. 515)

in stock of Josiah T. Chapman, 1912 (item ref. 1702)

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

service of song

Date of first manufacture

1894

Reading or song

M.S. Haycraft (arr. James Tipton), Won by a child (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

Related slide sets

reissue of Won by a child (story: Bamforth & Co., at least 22 slides, n.d.)

see generic title Won by a child (generic set title – 3 different versions are known)

People appearing in slides

BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894) – slides 16*-19, 34, 36-37, 39

Notes

This appears to be an expanded version of the earlier Bamforth set of this title; the date of 1894 (based on the set's position in the Bamforth slide catalogue) may apply to the earlier version, with this one issued some time later.

Collections

45 slides known to exist in private collection

1 slide known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID 3001047

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 May 2024

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Slide set: Won by a child (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 41-46 slides, 1894)