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Slide set: [Temperance recitation set on desert island] (recitation: privately made, 6 slides, n.d.)

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Slide 1
A total abstainer in days gone by / Was cast on an island deserted and dry
Slide 2
No no!! he thought 'I've shunned ye cup / From early youth and I'll keep it up'
Slide 3
So climbing the stem of the self same tree / He got to the top, tho' he barked his knee
Slide 4
Undaunted he started to sink a well / With aid of his knife and an oyster shell
Slide 5
Next filling his hat with sea he waits / Until enough evaporates
Slide 6
The grabbing that bottle he murmured 'Now / I'm sorry to say I must break my vow'

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