Slide set: Only a waif (service of song: W. Rider & Co., 23 slides, 1900)

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Slide 1

Slide 2

The long, hard struggle was almost at an end

Slide 3

He sat on a broken box, and looked wistfully at his wife

Slide 4

'What is it, Molly, do you feel a bit better, now, my lass?'

Slide 5

'Don't cry, Jim,' she said in a faint whisper

Slide 6

'You shall pick the daisies, Danny,' he told the child

Slide 7

no image available

Slide 8

'Stay here, sonny, till Dada comes back'

Slide 9

It was nearly midnight and a drizzly rain had begun to fall

Slide 10

He looked down in the lamplight pityingly upon the tear-bedewed eyes

Slide 11

'I's Danny,' said the child, 'Mammy's little Danny'

Slide 12

But the smell of the drink and the familiar surroundings proved more than he could bear

Slide 13

He was stumbling along the streets of a busy suburb

Slide 14

All his trespasses seemed like a dark cloud round him

Slide 15

It was a little group of open-air workers

Slide 16

He sat down at the back, keeping his eye on the preacher

Slide 17

It's all true what you've been saying, it is in the Book

Slide 18

The young man found the poor wanderer had nowhere to lay his head

Slide 19

One day the mission nurse came to them with a glad look on her face

Slide 20

That afternoon his friends came to see him again

Slide 21

'What?' asked the listeners, bending forward with attentive looks

Slide 22

Slide 23

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Number of slides

Manufacturer

W. Rider & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of W. Nicholson & Sons, , dates unknown (item ref. 59)

in stock of Josiah T. Chapman, 1909-1912 (item ref. 1800)

in stock of J. Lizars, 1909 (item ref. 939)

in stock of Walter Tyler, 1909 (item ref. 1267)

in stock of J.W. Butcher, 1913

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

service of song

Date of first manufacture

1900

Reading or song

John Burnham (arranger), Only a waif (1896)

People appearing in slides

UNIDENTIFIED LIFE MODEL 01 (fl. 1890s-1900s) – slides 9-12

Notes

The Lizars catalogue only lists the first 21 slides of the set.

Lucerna ID 3002834

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 January 2022

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Slide set: Only a waif (service of song: W. Rider & Co., 23 slides, 1900)