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Christie's old Organ. |
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Christie's Old Organ, or Home, Sweet Home. Service of song: probably Bamforth & Co. This set is published in several designs, with tinted life model illustrations, with the same images but now in black and white, and finally with rather poor drawn images. The complete set contains of some 47 slides. Twelve slides of the first design reproduced below. |
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| 1. Introduction. | 7. Christie crept to his side and took hold of his hand. | 11. Next day he was too weak and feeble to go out, and Christie got him all he wanted. |
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| 13. 'Give us a tune, Christie; play away, Christie,' they all cried. | 16. Christie began to play, and two merry little faces appeared at a window at the top of the house. | 25. 'Don't you love Jesus, Christie?' said Mabel with a grave sorrowful face. |
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| 26. As he was sitting there, two women met each other just in front of him. | 30. Christie never took his eyes off him during the whole service. | 34. 'Oh, Master Treffy!' said Christie, I've had such a time, and the Clergyman is coming to see you. |
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| 40. 'Play again, Christie, boy,' said the old man and Christie played 'Home, sweet Home'. | 44. At length the clergyman came to see him, 'Oh, I am glad to see you,' said Christie. | 46. She had not met Christie in that attic since the days when they were both children. |
| Nine slides of the set in a black and white design..... | ||
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| 6. Christie went down stairs and lay down on his hard bench again. | 24. Little Mabel took hold of the handle of the organ, and very slowly and carefully she turned it. | 30. Christie never took his eyes off him during the whole service. |
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| 32. The Mission-room was very still when the minister gave out his text. | 33. The clergyman asked Christie several questions about the sermon. | 35. Little Mabel and her mother were coming down the steps when Christie arrived. |
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| 36. When Christie entered the attic , the clergyman was sitting beside Old Treffy. | 37. 'Please, sir' said Christie, 'would you like a few of them?' | 38. The lady sat down beside Treffy, and they talked together of Jesus. |
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| 20. 'Well, my boy, what do you want?' said the doctor. | 41. Christie turned the handle of the organ, hoping that someone would look out and speak to him. | ?? |
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The sequel: |
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Christie, the King's Servant Sequel to 'Christie's Old Organ' (story: T.J. and W.F. Piggott, 39 square slides.) |
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