Slide set: Mattie's home: or, the little match girl and her friends (story: Bamforth & Co., 36-68 slides, 1895)

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1

It was Christmas Eve in London streets

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Two small pedestrians had just emerged from a narrow side-street

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Mattie was trying to earn her living and little Dot’s, by selling matches

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Mattie remembered the beating her stepmother had given her

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They were passing a shop now that was filled as full as it could hold

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'Here, child, how do you sell them? I declare I should have forgotten'

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She counted out fourpence with a business-like air into her customer’s hand

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'Will mother give us something to eat?' she asked, as they trudged along

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She picked it up. It was a pocket-book

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'Stop, sir, stop!' she cried out. 'Stop, sir, you've dropped this'

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She lifted the child upon the steps, and said 'stand here Dot'

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'You dropped it, sir,' gasped Mattie, looking up into his face

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The gentleman cried out after her to stop, but she was out of hearing

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9

Mattie's face was one that any one might be struck with

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9a

Mattie found Dot where she had left her

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10

Where was the sixpence? Where was it, LOST!

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But what of the children of drunken, dissolute parents?

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Just then a gruff voice was heard, 'Move on there, move on'

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They must go home sooner or later, or starve in the streets

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She felt orphaned and alone in this dreary world

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(Effect) Mattie had a dim remembrance of better days

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Dot sprang forward at once and devoured the crusts and fragments

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'Lost it? ay, a likely tale!' shouted the enraged woman

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She laboured Mattie with unsparing hand

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She gave the few coppers into her stepmother's hand

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'Now, you’ll just go out again and beg till you’ve got something'

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Poor Mattie sat down on the steps and cried

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Mattie shrank into a corner until they had passed

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Another pair of feet came pattering down

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Mattie put her arm round her and drew her close to her

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And they knelt down on the landing of the stairs

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She passed the portico where she and Dot had sat

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She was very tired, and she stood still to rest against the railings

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18a

Down she came, hitting her forehead against a corner of the wall

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When she regained consciousness she thought she was in heaven

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The gentleman of the house hearing the commotion had come outside

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He asked her a great many questions, who she was, &c.

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The gentleman had stayed behind when the lady had left the room

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'Oh, sir, please! I must go home,' she repeated

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22

Mattie had her supper of bread and milk in the nursery

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Poor child! it was so strange to her to hear a gentle word

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Mattie sped swiftly through the lamplit street

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23a

A stream of light from the moon disclosing little Dot on the heap of straw

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She stretched out her little bony arms with a wistful, weary look

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24a

Mattie lay down beside her on the straw pallet

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The woman pushed open the door and entered the room

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Mattie looked at her face, and a shudder crept through her from head to foot

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The Father in heaven had heard the feeble prayers

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There was a handful of fire in the grate occasionally

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The woman plucked her strongly by the arm, and asked her what she meant to do

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It was the first time she had been out of doors since the day of Dot’s death

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There was the very house itself. Mattie was afraid it had been a dream

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29

Standing on tip-toe, she just managed to reach the knocker

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A tall footman in livery opened the door

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30

She stood in the warm fire-light and felt the glowing heat

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The beautiful lady stooped down and kissed her

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(effect) She was thinking of a little grave far away

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'Mamma! mamma! the little girl is crying'

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32

She was seated on a stool before the fire telling her past experiences

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They sat a long time together talking about Mattie

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Here she was, however, standing before the nursery fire

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Mattie looked at herself in the nursery glass and saw the change

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'It’s Our Father has done it,' she exclaimed, 'Him as mother used to talk to'

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This was MATTIE’S HOME

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35

Mattie found herself in a large cheerful kitchen

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Then upstairs to see the bedroom

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36

And then to the bakehouse

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36a

Happy Mattie! Escaped for ever from the misery and neglect and want

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Lucerna ID 3001113

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 23 July 2017

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