Slide set: A night with the baby (story: manufacturer unknown, 9 slides, n.d.)

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Slide 1

11 p.m. -- 'Good night my dear, I shall soon put him to sleep in the next room'

Slide 2

12-15 p.m. -- 'Well, I wonder how much longer he is going to be wakeful, I had no idea a baby could weigh so much'

Slide 3

1 a.m. -- 'Now it's time to give him his bottle and I haven't had a wink of sleep yet, feel as if I hadn't slept for a year, Ah-h-h!'

Slide 4

2 a.m. -- 'Thank goodness, asleep at last, now I can have a snooze to myself'

Slide 5

3 a.m. 'Great Scott! there he is again, worse than ever? Gr-r-r-r, go to sleep'

Slide 6

4 a.m. -- 'What on earth is one to do with an infant that howls like this?'

Slide 7

5 a.m. -- 'Let him howl, he can't keep on for ever, that's certain'

Slide 8

6 a.m. Exhausted nature can do no more and sleep comes on at last

Slide 9

8 a.m. When his wife received him he was a complete wreck

drawing / painting / print

Main usage of set

story

Date of first manufacture

unknown

Related slide set

see generic title Night with a baby (generic set title – 2 different versions are known)

Collections

9 slides known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID 3007372

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 15 August 2022

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Slide set: A night with the baby (story: manufacturer unknown, 9 slides, n.d.)