Slide set: The factory chimney: or, the little badge of blue (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 4 slides, in/before 1888)
“The story of a worsted stocking, with a Temperance moral, by Joseph Malins”
“Relates how a man left on the top of a factory chimney escapes by unwinding his worsted stocking, tying a piece of mortar to the end of the worsted, dropping it down, pulling up string and then a rope, which he fastens, and with its aid descends.”
“Or the Little Badge of Blue. A story by Joseph Malins, R.W.G.T., of a man left on the top of a tall chimney, who escapes death by unravelling his stocking, to which a cord is affixed and then rope, with analogy to gospel temperance.”
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