[{"node":{"title":"Hanna017","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna017","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Downpatrick, Finnebrogue","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna017","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/Hanna017_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"12\n\nShe bed wanted to deny him and his smile had said *1 see, 1 understand, not\n\nnow.' and she had paused and not gone into her mother again, The grass\n\nwetted her stockings and she shivered in the chill air.\n\nhen she entered the kitchen again Hamilton and Frank had gone to bed,\n\nand her mother* dipping their supper cups in a basin of water, was saying to\n\nAndrew who set girning and muttering at the fire, \"Ah, drink up your cocoa\n\nlike a good man, till we get away t\u2019our beds.\u201d The old man tipped the contents\n\nof his cup into the back of the fire,\n\n\"Cocoa's the fruit of the Lord as well aa bread, murmured Martha angrily.\n\n\"Aye, and so are hearing\u201d returned Andrew 'but I Winna feed them to a horse.\n\n\u201cSarah daughter, wet me a cup o\u2019 tea, for my mouth\u2019s as grurmly as a puddle,\n\n\u201cWhat's in the wee shed below the brae?\" she asked as she lowered the kettle\n\non the crane.\n\n\"A boat that Sarah bought nine or ten summers ago,\" answered . Andrew, watching\n\nwith pleasure the hot water hiss on the leaves. Sarah thrust the belly of\n\nthe pot between two turves to simmer, and Echlin continued '\"The three of us\n\nwere coming home from Downpatrick when the boys heard toll o\u2019 a punt selling\n\nat Finnebrogue, so they bought her and rowed her the length o* the Lough and\n\nwere home a round hour afore me and the cart. what do you think of that,\n\nnow?\" the women smiled and nodded.\n\nWill she Niinr?\" asked Sarah, drawing out the pot.\n\nAye, she\u2019ll swim! her as tight as a bottle.'\n\n'Ihere was silence as Sarah filled the cups. \"Well, will ye take roe for a\n\nsail?\" Andrew laughed and Martha slopped her cloth noisily on the table, She\n\nalways felt uneasy when her daughter asked favours like this.in such a self-\n\nassured way, as if a refusal wasn't to be dreamt of.\n","Type":"Text"}}]