[{"node":{"title":"Hanna135","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna135","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Cottage, Agnes","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna135","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/Hanna135_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff129\n\nThe faint clip-clop of the pony's hooves reached the women on\nthe hilltop. In a moment Bridli Dineen had gathered her children into\nher, and after a few hurried words to Agnes, swept them and herself\nout of the sun into the shadowy firelit depths of here cottage.\n\nAgnes waited until the trap drew up beside her. \"How are ye,\nSarah?\" she asked, and then as she saw the small shawled figure in the\ncrook of Sarah\u2019s arm, she cried \"Ah, did ye bring the wee fella! Give\nus him down here.\" Sarah climbed down with the baby in her arms. \"l\u2019m\ngoing on an errand to Ardpatrick, and I was wondering would ye look\nafter him \u2019til I get back?\"\n\n\"Aye, God bless him, I\u2019ll dae it with a heart and a half.\"\n\nTwo or three of the children had crept out again from Bridie\u2019s\ncottage and now stood blinking at Sarah and the handsome trap. Sarah\nglanced at them. \"Tell me, Agnes, why did the Dineen woman go indoors\nwhen she saw me? She went off like a clockin hen when it hears a\nmagpie!\"*\n\n\"Och, dont heed her, she said she smelt a pot boiling over.\"\n\n\"It was a quare pot boiling over! look at her noq, keeking at\nus through the window, Heth, but she\u2019s a sleeked one, that.\"\n\nAgnes cuffed the hen that was pecking listlessly at her hard\nfreckled arm. \"Och, she\u2019s like many another. She was learned as a\nchild tae stick taw the highroad for this,\" and herw she nodded at\nBridie's children, \"and she\u2019s irked when she finds another has ta\u2019en\na short cut through the dykes, and arrived wi\u2019 as much honour and more\nease.\"\n\nSarah did not know what to make of this. She searched Agnes\u2019s\n","Type":"Text"}}]