Slide set: The lifeboat (recitation: York & Son, 7 slides, 1886)
“A story of splendid devotion to duty which saved two lives. Told in very spirited verse. By G.R. Sims.”
“A tale in verse, by G. R. Sims, in which the husband of a woman, who is lying dying of grief for the loss of a son, is begged by the captain of the lifeboat to join in a daring rescue. The dying woman begs her husband to go , he obeys, he seizes a body in the water, gets a terrible blow, is laid up at home, and at last discovers that he rescued his son, and that his wife has recovered her health at the joyful sight of her long-lost son.”
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