Slide set: Johnnie (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1901)

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Slide 1

Slide 2

Come, arn't you better to-day, Johnny? you've been lying for more than a week

Slide 3

When I came home -- kind of upset like -- and you fell down stairs, so to speak

Slide 4

But the poor can't afford to be sick, Johnny, I've bin four days dry, just yer think

Slide 5

Get up, or I'll -- Heavens! How's this Johnny, -- why are your pinched cheeks so white?

Slide 6

Dead! not dead, little Johnny? Oh! say you ain't gone right away

Slide 7

Dear! and what killed you, Johnny? Ah, I know it now, yes I see

Slide 8

If it hadn't been for the liquor -- the curse that has ruined my life

Slide 9

And then when I saw her lying as you do now

Slide 10

I know you are happy now, Johnny, I know you are safe up there

Slide 11

And so I must say good-bye, Johnny, I know we can't meet again

Slide 12

I should like once to see my angel just before they bolt the door

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

1901

Reading or song

T. Cruddas Porteus, ‘Johnnie’ in The rosebud recitations (1897)

Collections

12 slides known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID 3002327

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 1 December 2008

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Slide set: Johnnie (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1901)