[{"node":{"title":"Lingard179","Collections":"Chapter 18","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard179","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Tyrone, Babies","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard179","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard179_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff171\n\ndetail, taking into account every possible calamity. Mr McCoy had\ntwoa weeks holiday so they were both going offf to Tyrone taking wiht\nthem the baby and the next two youngest children.\n\n\"Are you ready for off then?\" asked Uncle Albert, putting his head\nround the kitchen door.\n\n\"Not be a minute, Albeit,\" said Mrs McCoy, wrapping the baby\u2019s\nfeeding bottle in a cloth and putting it into hera    bulging shoppingcarrier\nbag. Then she put out her arms for the baby. Kevin had been holding\nher.\n\n\"There you arey.\" He swung the baby across.\n\n\"Careful, Kevin! You nearly stopped mey heart there.\"\n\n\"I've held plenty of babies in x my time, have I not?\"\n\n\"'Deed I suppose you have!\"\n\n\"Mary!\" Mr McCoy was calling from the front street.\n\n\"Coming, Pete.\"\n\nKevin carried the bag out for her. The other two children were\nalready in the back of the car, climbing over the seat, jumping up a\nand down withe excitement.\n\n\"It\u2019s about time!\" said Mr McCoy, helping his wife to get in to\nthe back of the car with the baby. \"It'll be dark before we get there.\"\n\n\"It certainly will,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"Oh,I don't know,\" said Uncle Albert, who had never made the trip\nto Tyrone without at least one breakdown,but would never in advance\nadmit to it being the remotest possibility. His memory sieved out\nanything he didn't want to remember. Just as well, thought Kevin, as\n","Type":"Text"}}]