[{"node":{"title":"Hanna092","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna092","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Purdie, Water","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna092","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/Hanna092_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"87\n\nand left the house walking across the close and into the field where Purdlie\nand he had been working. He turned up along the hedge until he stood at the\nback wall of a barn against which ranks of stinging nettles clung stubbornly,\nThe field in which he stood was fringed by the waters of the lough that\nlapped grey and chill under the winter sky. On the bottom of the hill,\nwhich sloped down from Rathard, Purdy and he hod opened a trench and now\nwater was gushing down it, still discoloured with raw clay. At the end of\nthe trench where it passed dose to the barn a square pit had been dug and\nbeside it lay the axle and blades of a waterwheel.\n\nOne evening in the autumn, Purdie had come up to Rathard and asked\npermission to turn a little stream which ran along the bottom of the hill\ninto the lough, so that it would pass behind the wall of his barn. When\nHamilton heard that Purdie meant to turn his barn machinery with the water\npower, he laughed. He took Purdie out and showed him the rivulet where it\nran on the hillside below the rath. \"There's not enough power in that\ntrinket tae drive a turnip-cutter let alone fans. Stick tae your horse\non the horse-walk, Stewartie\". But the old man was obstinate, Frank\nbacked him up for the novelty of the waterwheel, and Hamilton shrugged,\nlaughed and gave permission.\n\nPurdie came through the gate with two axle-sockets of stone in\nhis arms. \"We\u2019ll set these first, Frank, put on the wheel an* couple\nher up wi\u2019 the shaft\". He dropped the sockets and indicated a\ndriving-shaft protruding from the wall of the barn.\n\nThey set to work and in a short time the sockets were secured and\nthe wheel lowered under the falling water. Both men stood back, their\n","Type":"Text"}}]