Slide set: Dame Perkins and her grey mare (recitation: York & Son, 8 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1**

The old grey mare was trotted out / And rubbed down with straw

Slide 2**

'Plague take thee, Sal,' Dame Perkins said, / 'If at this stumbling gait'

Slide 3

At length, as from an ugly dream, / She woke with sudden snort

Slide 4**

On came the hounds and huntsmen all, / And shrill the blast they blew

Slide 5**

With one light bound she cleared the leap, / Nor brushed it with her legs

Slide 6**

A famous swimmer was the mare, / How well she plied her legs

Slide 7

It mattered little to the mare, / She hadn't time to wait

Slide 8**

Regardful of my due, a pad / Content am I to claim

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (5)

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), A 23

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 68

1892

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus, etc.: season 1892-93 (London: Wrench & Son, 1892), 198

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 511

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 68

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), 285

“Tells how a poor old grey mare, who could hardly carry her dame to market, wakes up at the sound of the hounds, clears gates and hedges, smashing eggs, etc., and wins the brush.”

Lucerna ID 3002688

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 14 May 2024

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Slide set: Dame Perkins and her grey mare (recitation: York & Son, 8 slides, in/before 1888)