J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (circa 1900)

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150 52 The Village Blacksmith. A Service of Song, by tbe Rev. M. B. Meorhouse, Viear of St. Mary Bredin’s, Canterbury. 1 Title. “ Tbe Village Blacksmith,” with picture of interior of smithy 2 The smithy throws out welcome rays to guide the traveller 3 The labourer, with mattock and spade across his shoulder, will call here 4 The horses come down for their shoeing 5 Always ready to give the weight of his arm or the help of his counsel 6 I want each of you to ask your father if he will promise, &o. 7 Eager to tell of my success, and to sign the pledge 8 We began with a tuneful children’s chorus 9 He chose the forget-me-not as our special badge 10 Our kind schoolmaster then addressed us on words derived from the surroundings of the smithy 11 • What an effect is produced upon metals by the action of fire’ 12 They stood looking in and listening at the door 13 They set down their names on the pledge book which was lying on the anvil 14 He arranged an excursion for us to some pretty woods at a distance 15 He did not fail to draw useful lessons from their happy lives and innocent habits 16 In the middle of the day, when we were glad to sit under the shady trees 17 He led us up the aisle to the seats, which we nearly filled 18 He held my hand while I looked eagerly at the ponderous gigantic wheel 19 I followed the course of a stream to its fountain 20 So sheer was the precipice close to my fiet 21 I wandered next day by a swift flowing river 22 Was held smooth and fast in the fetters of frost 23 And likely to burst its banks through the heavy downpour 24 The moon was shining brightly, and lit up a wild waste of water 25 Never oin I forget the scene as we knelt there in the moonlight 26 It left its deep-scored mark upon our valley, where eighty-one lives had been swept away in a few momenta Service of Song. 3d. Bells Across the Snow. By Fannie Eden. 1 But now the moorland is white, pure, and spotless 2 Dr Redfern is seated at the table, looking over his account books 8 Mrs Redfern went back to her stocking mending 4 And so enwrapped were both mother and child in that old, sweet tale 6 A real old-fasnioned Yorkshire kitchen 6 While a rosy, laughing group besiege her and pull her down to be kissed 7 ‘ Oome, Toddleums,’ he cried, * where's my Toddleuma ’ 8 He is evidently a young curate