Slide set: Misadventures at Margate: a legend of Jarvis's Jetty (recitation: privately made, 20 slides, n.d.)

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I was in Margate last July, I walk'd upon the pier

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He put his finger in his mouth, his little bosom rose

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The tear-drop in his little eye again began to spring

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I have not had, this live-long day, one drop to cheer my heart

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Cheer up! cheer up! my little man -- cheer up! I kindly said

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There's roast potatoes at the fire, -- enough for me and you --

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But Mrs Jones was rather cross, she made a little noise

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It was not so much for myself as for that vulgar child --

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I could not see my table-spoons -- I look'd, but could not see

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Next morning I was up betimes -- I sent the Crier round,

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I told my tale -- he seem'd to think I'd not been treated well,

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In Captain Large's Royal George, about an hour before,

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I went and told the constable my property to track;

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His Lordship very kindly said he'd try and find him out,

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Moral. Remember, then, what when a boy I've heard my Grandma' tell,

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And when you go to Margate next, just stop, and ring the bell,

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Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

unknown

Reading or song

‘Thomas Ingoldsby’, ‘Misadventures at Margate: [a.k.a. The vulgar little boy]’ in several compilations

Related slide set

see also Misadventures at Margit (story: manufacturer unknown, 7 slides, in/before 1898)

People involved in slide production

JESSOP, Ernest M. (1851-1909) – creator of source image(s), all 20 slides

Collections

18 slides known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID 3004092

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 5 June 2024

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Slide set: Misadventures at Margate: a legend of Jarvis's Jetty (recitation: privately made, 20 slides, n.d.)