[{"node":{"title":"Hanna186","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna186","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Ravara, Piping","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna186","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/Hanna186_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff180\n\nChapter Eighteen\n\nThe road that ran from the scene of the fete across\nthe townland of Ravara and past Rathard, lay silent. Then,\nin the distance was heard the chanting of pipes and a\nharmonious murmur of voices. In the owl-light there\nappeared over a rise in the road the piper followed by\ntwenty or thirty lads and girls. Some of them, arm-in-arm,\nwere prancing before him as he played, others, weary-footed,\ntrailed behind him, and the rest, on wavering slowly-\nmoved bicycles, brought up the rear, when they reached\nthe cross formed by Echlin\u2019s loanen and the loanen on the\nopposite side of the road, where the banks were gently\nsloping and smooth, they stopped and laid themselves and\ntheir bicycles on the grass. The piper stepped into the\nmiddle of the road and fingered a jig, Tomelty's Verdant\nBreeks.\n\nHigh above them in Rathard close, Hamilton heard the\npiping and shouting on the road. He went indoors and call-\ned on Andrew. \"Come on down to the road wi' me,son, and\nsee the feters coming home.\" Andrew, turning a deaf ear\nto his mother's demur that the night was dropping, twisted\nrestively in her hands as she pinned a shawl around. Then\nhe hastened out to Hamilton who was trimming a hurricane\nlamp before the door and tapping a foot to the distant\nmusic.\n\nThey descended the loanen hand-in-hand, the noise\nof the revellers becoming clearer as they neared the road.\nThe piping had brought out the old men from their cottages\nin the fields and now they were seated with the young folk\nenjoying the music, the laughter, and the air. Retie had\nbrought his flute and sat tapping it impatiently as he\nwaited for the piper to tire. Hamilton and Andrew joined\n","Type":"Text"}}]