[{"node":{"title":"Lingard182","Collections":"Chapter 18","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard182","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Blood, Blake","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard182","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/Lingard182_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff174\n\n\"I hope it won\u2019t be just the same. She'sMy mother's had too much work and not\nenough living.\"\n\n\"Well, there\u2019s one thing for sure,\u201d said Sadie, \" I\u2019m not going to\nend up like my mother!\u201d\n\nKevin laughed. \u201d1 think you're safe on that one.\u201d\n\n\"She's found me a job. You'll never guess?\u201d Sadie rolled hers\neyes. \"Working at the cash desk at the local butcher's. Can you\nimagine me sitting cooped up in one of those wee boxes all day taking the\nmoney for lumps of meat?\u201d\n\n\"What are you going to do about it?x\u201d\n\n\"I've done it. I went along for an interview and I told the h\nbutcher that the sight of blood always made me vomit. He said that\nunder the circumstances it might not be wise then for me to take\nthe job. I said that unfortuxax^xiynately I was forced to agree.\u201d\n\nKevin ruffled her hair. \"It takes a lot to put you down, doesn't\nit, Sadie Jackson?\u201d\n\n\"That's what my mother says too!\u201d\n\nThey were laughing when Mr Blake came into the kitchen with Jack.\nThey had been for a walk and they were both thirsty. Sadie got up\nto put the kettle on and Kevin filled the dog's dish with fresh\nwater.\n\n\"It's nice to hear the two of you laughing,\u201d said Mr Blake, hanging\nup the lead on the back of the door. \"Whatever happens we musn't\nforget how to laugh.\u201d\n\nWhen they had finished supper, Sadie set off home, and the ten\n","Type":"Text"}}]