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Slide set: The donkey and the mill (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1**
The peasant and his donkey hasten to the mill
Slide 2**
He fastens his donkey to the sail of the mill
Slide 3**
The wicked miller sets the mill going
Slide 4**
Up goes the donkey
Slide 5**
The poor man hangs by the donkey's tail
Slide 6**
The hair gives way, and down he comes
Slide 7**
The miller is enjoying the sport
Slide 8**
The peasant gets knocked over by the mill
Slide 9**
The mill stops, but the donkey is dead. He vows vengeance
Slide 10**
At night he comes and saws away the mill
Slide 11**
Crack, crack, and at last over goes the mill and miller
Slide 12**
This is the miller's punishment, and the peasant's revenge
** there are alternative versions or views of this slide
Catalogue entries (7)
1891
Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 61
1894
Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 114
1894
Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 124
1898
Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 528
1906
Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 8
1909
Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 12
c.1913
Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 61
Other reference
1888
Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 300

“Humorous verses on the miller, the peasant, the ass and the peasant's wife. The ass is tied to the mill, which, set going by the miller, kills it. The peasant saws the mill down in revenge.”

Lucerna ID  3001899

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 17 May 2024

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