Slide set: Laddie (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 40 slides, 1907)

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The 'bellerin' stopped instantaneously at such a refreshing sight

Slide 4

'This ain't London?' she asked in a thin, chirrupy voice

Slide 5

The old lady soon found another listener

Slide 6

A damp and steaming ticket-collector opened the door

Slide 7

There is something remarkable in the man John Clement Carter, M.D.

Slide 8

'Not another word, my dear boy, not another word!'

Slide 9**

Dr Carter was dreaming rosy dreams that evening in his quiet room

Slide 10

'Please, sir, there's some one wishes to see you'

Slide 11

The door was pushed open, and before him stood his mother

Slide 12

Dr Carter started up saying, 'Mother! why, mother!'

Slide 13

'I must have a good look at you, Laddie boy,' she said

Slide 14

John Carter busied himself with making the fire burn up into a blaze

Slide 15

The sight of her white, trembling old face touched the doctor's heart

Slide 16

'Look here,' he said, 'I want tea at once, in the dining room'

Slide 17

Ah! I remember well what tea you used to make in that little brown teapot at home

Slide 18

She stood for some minutes looking at the scene reflected in the glass before her

Slide 19

His door opened softly and his mother came in -- such a queer, funny old figure

Slide 20

She made him lie down, and tucked the clothes round him, and kissed him

Slide 21

It must have been soon after this that he woke with a start

Slide 22

God forgive me for wounding the brave old heart!

Slide 23

I don't think none the worse of you, but a deal the better for saying it out like a man

Slide 24

He did not find his mother at Sunnybrook

Slide 25

She stretched out both her soft hands, and said, 'Tell me about it'

Slide 26

'Love me less, then, Violet; hate me, for I was ashamed of her'

Slide 27

London seemed a very terrible place to the old countrywoman

Slide 28

She reached one of the parks at last, and sat down very thankfully on a seat

Slide 29

'Don't you see as you've dropped your purse?' he said in a surly, angry tone

Slide 30

The old woman longed, oh! how bitterly, for the old fireside, and the settle

Slide 31

'Why, it ain't never you! Whoever would have thougt of seeing you so soon?'

Slide 32

'Here they are, sir,' said the nurse, 'they must have dropped on the next bed, as you turned round'

Slide 33

'Mother!' he cried, 'mother, is it you?'

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Slide 35

'Ah, Laddie,' she said, 'I'm a bit tired with my journey'

Slide 36

As the evening came on, she fell asleep very quietly

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Slide 38

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Slide 39

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Slide 40

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** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1907-1914 (item ref. 1543)

in stock of J. Lizars, 1909 (item ref. 1111)

in stock of J.W. Butcher, 1913

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

service of song

Date of first manufacture

1907

Reading or song

John Graham (arr. John Graham), Laddie (London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1889)

Related slide set

see generic title Laddie (generic set title – 3 different versions are known)

Notes

Riley catalogue gives the number of slides as 39; Butcher catalogue only lists the first 36 slides.

Collections

1 slide known to exist in private collection

36 slides known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID 3001811

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 3 September 2012

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Slide set: Laddie (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 40 slides, 1907)