Temperance stories, part 7. |
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Father, dear father, come home with me now... |
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Harry's pint: or, threepence a day
A short story by Mark Guy Pearse, teaching how much difference it makes in the family income when a very moderate drinker becomes a total abstainer. Harry spends threepence a day in beer. Through a sermon he hears at an open air meeting he resolves to sign the pledge. Some short time after his wife is surprised to have the miller call with a sack of flour, which she maintains is not for her. The poor woman is still more perplexed when a man arrives with a ton of coal. A few moments later the husband comes in and explains that the coals and flour are the result of his having saved threepence a day. Mark Guy Pearse was a Methodist preacher, lecturer and author who, during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first of the 20th, was a household name throughout Britain and beyond. |
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1. Harry was the ostler at the Green Man Inn | 2. It was market-day that was the making of the place | 3. Carts and gigs crowded the yard |
4. Sunday was a sleeper species of the same class | 5. Harry was a good steady man; quiet, obliging and industrious | 6. My first acquaintance with him was when preaching in the open air |
7. 'Excuse me, sir', said Harry, 'but I thought I must come down and tell you!' | 8. We kneeled together and gave thanks to God | 9. His chin rested on his hands; his elbows were propped up by his knees |
10. 'What's that you're going to do?' asked his wife | 11. Well he is a poor critter that can't keep his own promise | 12. The poor woman was never so bothered before |
13. She deposited him in the cradle | 14. She looked out though the slightly open door | 15. It's all right, missus', said the man carrying the flour |
16. Harry's wife turned in again to work at the bread | 17. 'Brought you a ton of coals, mum!' said the dusky driver | 18. She reflected about it as she finished her bread |
This set consists of 20 square magic lantern slides of 8 x 8 cm made by Bamforth & Co., England. | ||
19. 'O, Harry! the miller's man has brought the sack of flour' |
20. 'You see, dear, I've saved my threepence a day' |
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A Drunkard, yet a man A life model set of 12 magic lantern slides, one of which is repeated three times. The manufacturer is Bamforth & Co. The set is based on the temperance song of the same name by W. Vause and Joseph W. Garland. |
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1. Introduction | 2. A drunkard stood in his cheerless home, in deep distress he seemed | 3. At their hungry cry he turned around, their slender forms to scan |
4. Remember, when he sorrows thus, he is a brother and a man | 5. The mother wept, as well she might to see her husband's grief | 6. 'Oh, Father! who in heaven above hast all things in Thy span' |
4 (rpt). Remember, when he sorrows thus, he is a brother and a man | 7. Her drooping head he sadly raised, he called her by her name | 8. 'Oh, God, this drink will drive me mad, I long to be set free' |
9. 'Be brave, my lad,' she faintly cried, 'You yet will be a man' | 4 (rpt). Remember, when he sorrows thus, he is a brother and a man | 10. That good resolve was heard on high, and when the pledge was signed |
11. And in temptation's darkest hour God's strengthening hand was near | 12. 'Dear Lord! keep near -- no drink I'll fear -- once more I am a man! | 4 (rpt). Remember, when he sorrows thus, he is a brother and a man |
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