[{"node":{"title":"Hanna261","Collections":"Part Three","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna261","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Coffin, Hills","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna261","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/Hanna261_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff254\n\nIsaacV^J^Cl Sorleyson, standing on almost the identical\nplace where his father had stood, years before, offered\na brief and simple prayer for the soul of the dead man,\nand a word of compassion for those of the living. Then\nthe lid of the coffin was screwed down, and the bearers\nlifted it to carry it out. It had always been a difficult\ntask to carry a coffin through the dark narrow passage\nbetween the parlour and the kitchen of Rathard. But the\nmen who carried it were cunning in the handling of\nclumsy inanimate things. Sorleyson, standing in the\ndoorWay of the tiny room where Frank had lain in delirium\nwhen his father was carried out, heard the terse whispers\nfrom man to man, each order as certain and precise as\nthe movement that followed. Take her round an inch at\nthe butt .... up a handsbreadth at the jamb, Andra,\nand we're through. So the strong living men carried\ntheir dead brother out into the light, as they themselves\nwould be carried out some day, earlier or later.\n\nThen, when the coffin was raised by the first relay\nof bearers, the neighbouring-men coiled slowly after it,\nnone pressing forward for fear of usurping the place of\nthe relatives. So Frank Echlin was carried away from\nRathard, with the men of the townlands following him,\nand Sarah snd Martha, standing among the rowan trees,\nwatched his coffin and the darkclad figures stumbling\nunder it, until all disappeared into the folds of the\nlittle hills.\n","Type":"Text"}}]