[{"node":{"title":"Hanna211","Collections":"Part Three","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna211","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Schoolmaster, Slouched","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna211","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/Hanna211_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff204\n\nschoolbag on the dresser and crossing to the fireplace,\nlifted down the tea-caddy. She busied herself with\ninfusing the tea before she spoke. \"Master Herriot\nwas here the-day,\" she said at last.\nHamilton lowered his paper. \"Aye, and what did he\nwant?\"\n\n\"He was here to tell us that Andra was going deef.\"\n\"And what does he want us to do?\" queried the man. \"Buy\nhim new lugs?\" Little Martha giggled and Andrew smiled\nand lowered his eyes timidly.\n\nBut although the schoolmaster's visit had been\ndismissed in this manner, when bedtime came Sarah\ncalled the boy to her when he had undressed. She\nexamined his ears and then heated a little oil in a\nspoon and ran it into each ear. For several seconds\nthe lad stood with his head tilted to one side, his\neyes moving from his mother to Hamilton, and there was\nsuch an expression of anxious hope in his look that\nit arrested Hamiltoh's attention.\n\n\"Well? Well?\" burst from Sarah, sharply, impatiently.\n\nThe timid unhappy smile came on the boy's face\nagain. He shook his head. \"The bizzing's still there,\"\nhe said. Hamilton slouched back in his chair, lit his\ncold pipe and spat in the fire. \"Go tae your bed, son, \"\nsaid Sarah. When the boy had left them the couple by\nthe fire sat silent for a time. Then Hamilton knocked\nout his pipe and stood up. \"It's a quare thing the\ndeafness,\" he said, \"ye canna see it tae get at it.\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]