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Ye banks and braes

A set of five slides made by Bamforth & Co. after a song written by Robert Burns (1791). This famous song is about a heartbroken woman whose lover left her with only the thorn of a rose.
Burns wrote three versions of the song, all published in 1791. This is the third version.
 
   
Me and Jim
 
1. Whit Monday on Hampstead Heath 2. Whit Monday on Hampstead Heath 3. We Had Wandered Away from the Others
4. And he Turned and Stalked Away 5. 'Do you Mean that you'll Marry me, Annie?' 6. Well! we was Married Soon After
7. We Felt Like a King and Queen 8. I Stood at the Door with my Neighbours 9. 'Annie! Where's my Dinner?'
10. And he Swings Away in a Passion 11. I Could Read the Words Quite Plain 12. In the Sunday School
13. I'll Back myself for a Pancake 14. But I Saw When he Looked About him 15. I Want -- to be Friends Again, Jim
This set of 16 slides was made by York & Son, England, as indicated by a small triangular label in the upper left corner. This set was released in shades of grey; more expensive versions were coloured.

'Me and Jim: or our first quarrel' is a dramatic 1897 poem written under the pen name 'Jims Wife' (the pseudonym of Ada Martin, later Mrs. Clement Nugent Jackson). It was published in the collection [Gordon League Ballads for Working Men and Women] and later adapted into populair magic lantern slide lecture sets for public recitations.
 
16. We had Such a Happy Tea    
     
     
    To be continued!!!
 
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