Slide set: Drink (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 21 slides, 1898)

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Slide 1

Slide 2

She was scarcely more than a girl, it is true, if you measured her life by its years

Slide 3

And she pressed to her bosom, cold home of despair, the form of her slumbering child

Slide 4

Then she bend down her ear and listened awhile for the words that the little one said

Slide 5

She started and opened her bonny blue eyes, and she clung to her mother in fear

Slide 6

Then I thought he was beating you ever so hard and kicking you on the floor

Slide 7

And I'm cold, and my hands are shaking with fear. Pray God he won't beat us to-night

Slide 8

'Oh! 'tis he,' said the child, 'and I know by the way that he's cursing you, mother, he's drunk!'

Slide 9

Steal out at the back, and keep quiet outside and hide yourself down in the shed

Slide 10

'Too late,' said the mother, 'my darling, he's here!' and the father reeled in through the door

Slide 11

The child clasped her hands in a heart-rending way, and she looked in his face with affright

Slide 12

'Do you hear me, I say, if you haven't got beer you may take your farewell of this life'

Slide 13

But his cruel hand smote on and crimsoned her face, and she faltered and fell to the ground

Slide 14

Then the little children went and lay down by the side of the mother and silently wept

Slide 15

'Oh! mother, dear mother!' the little one said, and she spoke very low in her ear

Slide 16

But silent and coldly the mother still lay while the child nestled close to her breast

Slide 17

And with his red hand he uplifted the blind and he looked on the deed he had done

Slide 18

'Jess, Jessie!' said he, and the sleeping child woke with a start at the words he had said

Slide 19

He went from the room, and his visage was white as the face of the victim he'd slain

Slide 20

The Yarra flows silent and softly, and deep for ever and aye o'er its bed

Slide 21

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Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1898-1914 (item ref. 1102)

in stock of J. Lizars, 1909 (item ref. 838)

in stock of E.G. Wood, 1912 (item ref. 1862)

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

1898

Reading or song

W. Carleton, ‘Drink’ in Short lantern readings 26 (1898)

Related slide set

see generic title Drink (generic set title – 4 different versions are known)

Collections

21 slides in Kirklees Museums and Galleries

Subject keyword

social issues – alcohol / temperance

Lucerna ID 3001371

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 15 January 2018

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Slide set: Drink (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 21 slides, 1898)