[{"node":{"title":"Lingard194","Collections":"Chapter 20","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard194","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Job, Banter","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard194","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/Lingard194_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff185\n\nCHAPTER TWENTY\n\nBrede finished cutting the sandwiches and putlaid them inis a platsic\nlunch box. Her mother was pouring tea from a the kettle into a\nthermos flask. Her face was hot and flushed. Her eyes were on the\ngolden brown stream of liquid, watching carefully that not a drop\nwould spill, but her mind was on something else. Her eldest son\nwas going away.\n\nShe covered the stopper with greaseproof paper, pushed it in to\nthe neck of the flask. She looked round at her husband. He sat at\nthe table in his shirt-sleeves, reading the evening papxer, scratching\nhis head. He had tried to talk Kevin out of going away, but not very\nconvincingly. He knew that Kevin could not wander the streets\nindefiniately without a job. besides, the streets were no place to\nwander these days. And it was not the first time a family had seen\none of its children cross the water to Egnland to get work.\n\nKevin came in to the kitchen inwearing his suit. She had bought it for\nhim two years back for church-going. He had broadened since then\nand now it pulled across his shoulders. His mother pulledtooka hand-\nkerchief from her overall pocket and blew her nose.\n\nHe put his hands on her shoulders, and said \"Hey, come on now,\" he said \"\nit's not that bad. I'll be back to see you in no time at all.\nAnyway, I thought you'd be glad to be rid of me for a while.\"\n\n\"One less shirt to wash and iron,\" said Brede, trying to fall in\nwith his xbanter.\n\n\"One less mouth to feed,\" said Kevin.\n","Type":"Text"}}]