Slide set: Nellie's prayer (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 13 slides, 1890)

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Slide 1**

Stooped down, with her eyelids streaming, and kissed her and turned away

Slide 2**

That a soldier for Queen and country had bravely given his life

Slide 2a**

(effect) He had thought of his absent dear ones with the film of death on his eyes

Slide 3**

Then they counted the dead and wounded, and found him among the slain

Slide 4**

I had thought of him night and morning; I had passed long nights on my knees

Slide 4a**

(effect) It all came back like a vision; I could hear the band as it played

Slide 5**

He held her up at the station, lifted her up to kiss

Slide 6**

And so I had taken courage, and looked on the bright side first

Slide 7**

Till the truth came on me fiercely, and I thought that my heart would break

Slide 8**

'Why are you crying, mammy?' I only shook my head

Slide 9**

Prayed that, with her father lying in that far-off country dead!

Slide 10**

Up to her room, and I heard her kneeling beside her bed

Slide 11**

I gave one cry and I fainted, and Nell ran down at the cry

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Catalogue entries (11)

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 43

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 111

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 121

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 399

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 59

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 6

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 425

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 44

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 38

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 253

1913

Lantern and slide catalogue 1913-14 (London: Church Army, 1913), 162

“A story of War, and how the faith of a little child was honoured.”

Other reference

9 June 1890

[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/400/394-399

Lucerna ID 3000605

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Slide set: Nellie's prayer (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 13 slides, 1890)