Slide set: The two watchers (story: Bamforth & Co., 23 slides, 1897)

Set details Slide listing References to this set

Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1

How she shivers and trembles as she waits for her husband

Slide 2

She ventured timidly to peep within the public-house door

Slide 3

'Jamie,' urged the wife again, 'won't you come home to the children and me?'

Slide 4

And there on the wet pavement she lies a crushed and huddled mass

Slide 5

And again the laugh arose inside. But the woman, what of her?

Slide 6

She settled herself again under the window ledge and listened

Slide 7

She thought of her mother's words: 'Can I trust him with my only child'

Slide 6 (rpt)

Oh Jamie! Is that your wife crouching beneath that window in the wet and cold?

Slide 8

The policeman turned his lantern upon her face

Slide 9

He looked sadly after her, saying to himself: 'What a life! what a life!'

Slide 10

'You cannot see her, she must be kept quiet'

Slide 11

'My Susie at the point of death!' he sobbed, 'and all my doing'

Slide 12

He looked round and saw how much of the furniture had gone for drink

Slide 13

Every quick step on the floor above seemed to speak to him of death

Slide 14

The clergyman comforted him by his kind words

Slide 15

Slide 16

His fellow fishermen found him with his Bible open before him

Slide 17

'My curse, my heaviest curse, be on the drink!'

Slide 18

He still watched and waited, his ear ever on the listen

Slide 19

Hiding his face in the bedclothes and sobbing

Slide 20

Slide 21

The nurse came and ruthlessly cut their words short

Slide 22

The little pale woman and the great rough man -- he reading and she listening

Slide 23

The corner public-house is there still, alas! but Jamie never goes there now

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of P.T. M'Rostie, dates unknown

in stock of William C. Muir, dates unknown

in stock of Wrench & Son, 1898

in stock of North of England Temperance League, 1906 (item ref. 281)

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

story

Date of first manufacture

1897

Reading or song

Charles Courtenay, The two watchers (London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d.)

Collections

24 slides known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID 3002228

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 5 May 2024

Search for another slide set Print this record

How to cite this record: all the information in Lucerna is freely available for use for any legal non-commercial purpose. If you use any of the information or any images from this page, please credit Lucerna in the following (or an equivalent) style:

Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource, lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, item 3002228. Accessed 21 November 2024.

All Lucerna data is published in good faith as the latest known version of the information, but without any guarantee as to its accuracy or completeness. If you can correct or add to our information, or supply any images, please Contact us.

Using images from Lucerna: all the digital images on the Lucerna site are available to use for any legal non-commercial purpose, free of charge, if you acknowledge their source and include any copyright statement as it appears under the image. The images are relatively low-resolution, and not intended for print reproduction or projection. If you need a higher-resolution version of the image(s) on this page, please Contact us to ask about availability.

LUCERNA – the Magic Lantern Web Resource

Slide set: The two watchers (story: Bamforth & Co., 23 slides, 1897)