Pals – W.W. 1

“Pals” from a painting by Geo. Soper.

Colour postcard (one of a series) which explains the rehabilitation work of St. Dunstan’s and asks for contributions.

This one shows a blind man, a bandage over his eyes sitting in a green canvas deck chair,

his left arm round a collie dog, a walking stick in his right, with an army officer’s cap on the floor next to him.

 

The poem on the reverse reads;

 

I want no better pal than you, old boy,

It’s all the same to you that I can’t see.

There’s not a chum in all the great big world

To give me greater love and sympathy.

There’s some as don’t like dogs, the sort of folks

Who’d drop a tanner in a beggar’s hand,

As though an act like that makes up for ALL –

A dog’s devotion lets me understand.