Slide set: Polly: an old salt's yarn (recitation: Walter Tyler, 8 slides, in/before 1891)

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Slide 1

Well, no, young gents, I don't let out no boats to you to-day

Slide 2

You knows my old boat Polly, and you calls her an old tub

Slide 3

That's the signal of a vessel in distress

Slide 4

Another moment and our boat had left him on the wreck

Slide 5

The man on deck had seen me pitch headforemost in the sea

Slide 6

I never thought that we should reach the harbour bar alive

Slide 7

I pulled to where the lighthouse shone as brightly as a star

Slide 8

And so my lads that's how it was I came by that old boat

Catalogue entries (4)

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), J 5

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 376

“With Poetry.”

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 99

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 406

Lucerna ID 3000802

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 3 May 2024

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Slide set: Polly: an old salt's yarn (recitation: Walter Tyler, 8 slides, in/before 1891)