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

POPULAE LANTEEN PHOTOGEAPIia The Little Black Monkey. 1 Black monkey drops a cocoa-nut on bold traveller’-s head 2 Traveller does not like the blow 3 Traveller prepares to sboot the monkey 4 Traveller takes aim and misses 5 Black monkey grins and jeers, etc. The Vulgar Little Boy. Prom ‘ ‘ Ingoldsby Legends. ” —Six Original Illustrations. 1 The tear drop in his little eye began to spring. His bosom throbbed with agony, he cried like anything ! 1 stopped, and thus amidst his sobs I heard him murmur, “ Ah ! < havn’t got no supper, and I havn’t got no ma !” 2 I took him home to No. 2, the house beside the “Foy,” I bade him wipe his dirty shoes, that little Vulgar Boy ! And then 1 said to Mistress Jones, the kindest of her sex, “ Pray be so good as go and fetch a pint of Double X !” She with her apron wiped the plates, and as she wiped the delf, Said I might “go to Jericho, and fetch the beer myself.” 3 When I came back I gazed about, I gazed on stool and chair, I could not see my little friend, because he was not there ! I could not see my sugar tongs—my silver watch—oh, dear ! I know ’twas on the mantelpiece when I went out for beer. 4 Next morning I was up betimes—I sent the Drier round, But when the Crier cried, “ 0 Yes !” the people cried “ 0 No 1” 6 I went to Jarvis’ Landing-place, the glory of tlie town. There was a common-sailor mail a walk- ing up and down, I tohl my tale—he seem’d to think I’d not been treated well. And called me “ Poor Old Buffer !”— what that means 1 cannot tell. 6 I went and told the constable my pro- perty to track; He asked me if “ 1 did not wish that I might get it back ?” I answered, “To he sure I do 1—It’s what I’m come about.” ^e smiled and .said, “Sir, does your «othaf know that you are out ?” “Vat you Please.” Six Original Illustrations. 1 Two French refugees, trudging up to London from Dover, with empty pockets and stomachs 2 One of them attracted by the good smell from a iliniiig room, ventures in; and in reply to the waiter’s queries as to what he will have, says, “ Va* you please ” 3 Goose is followed by pie, pie by cheese, to all queries of the waiter he replies “Vat you please” 4 Waiter presents the bill; the Frenchman says he has not ordered, only said, “Vat you please,” and declines to pay i the landlord, when called, lets him go for his wit 6 The Frenchman meets his friend, and tells him of this shop of shops, and how he has taken John Bull in ; he follows suit ft The waiter tells the landlord of this second “ Vat you please,” who cann with a horsewhip secreted behind his back, and questioning the second Frenchman, received the reply “Vat you please,” and then gave him the whip, saying that his friend deserved his goose for his cunning, but that he was a goose who only wanted basting TTie Unlucky Present; or, The Covetous Parson and the Pot. Six Original Drawings. 1 The minister covets and begs a famon- iron pot 2 Carries the pot borne himself 3 The day being warm, and the pot heavy he put it on his head 4 In jumping a ditch, the pot slips ove« his nose 5 Obliged to go to the blacksmith and have the pot cracked on the anvil 6 The minister after the adventure Jack and the Bean-Stalk. 1 Jack sells the cow for a handful of beans 2 ,, finds next morning the beans grown into a tree 3 „ finds a beautiful fairy at toji of ths, tree 4 „ steals the giant’s hen that lays golden eggs 6 „ steals the giant’s money 6 „ hides in the copper 7 „ chops the bean-stalks, and the giant is killed with ths fall