[{"node":{"title":"Hanna155","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna155","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Dineen, Petie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna155","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/Hanna155_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff149\n\nlaughed he knew that it was the insistent, ever-present singing in his\nown ears that he heard. In the heart of a tiny rock-fringed knowe she\ntaught him to plant a garden with cowslips and marigolds. Then, in the\nevening, when Petie came in, and before his mother came to fetch him\nhome, he would sit with the old man on the long stone before the door,\nand Petie would play his flute or whistle below his breath while he beat\nout the rhythm of a lambeg drum with two twigs on the legs of his moleskin\ntrousers, and the dogs, stretched in the warm dust, snapped at flies and\ncuffed each other lazily.\n\nHe never spoke to Con Dineen. One afternoon as he climbed Knockna-\ndreemally he saw the read-headed boy sitting with Petie on the low wall\nthat separated the little pebbled closes before the cottages. Fingering\nthe marbles in his pocket, Andrew quickened his step, but as he appeared\nin sight of Dineen\u2019s window he heard Mrs Dineen call \"Co-o-oni Con, come\nin at once, I\u2019m needing you\"\" and the boy with a long reluctant look at\nAndrew, went indoors with hanging bead.\n\n\"What happened to the other wee fella?\" asked Andrew of Petie.\n\n\"Didn\u2019t ye hear his ma calling on him?\u201d\n\n\"Will he be lot out tae play marlies wi' me?\"\n\n\"Son, Con\u2019s a papish.\"\n\n\"Aye. Will he be let out tae play marlies wi' me?\"\n\n\"Did ye hear what I telt ye, Andra?\"\n\nBut the simple child, ignorant of the wisdom of his elders persisted\nin his question until Petie led him away to watch the waterhens on the\nlinthole behind the cottages.\n\nThat evening when his mother came for him he was sitting on the\nroad sifting the warm white dust through his toes. He jumped up when\n","Type":"Text"}}]