[{"node":{"title":"Lingard003","Collections":"Chapter 1","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard003","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Kate, Barbed-wire, Fighting","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard003","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/Lingard003_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3\n\n\"That's right. I'm working for Kate's da in his scrapyard.\nRemember Kate, Brede's friend?\"\n\n\"Indeed I do. She was sweet on you, wasn't she? used to fancy you, didn't she? Does she go with\nthe job?\"\n\n\"Your tongue hasn't changed much, has it? Sarky as ever aren't you?\"\n\nShe made a face at him. \"I think the scrap business would suit\nyou rightly... roaming the streets and all that.\"\n\n\"The streets aren't the same as they used to be. Plenty scrap\nlying about not what we're looking for.\"\n\nScrap in the streets: burnt-out cars and buses and armoured vehicles,\ntorn-up paving stones, barbed-wire coiled to form barricades. And\nalong the streets went soldiers on patrol with fingers on the triggers\nof their guns, men and women eyeing them watchfully, suspiciously, and\nbands of children playing at fighting and sometimes not just playing.\nSadei and Kevin were quiet. The subject was too difficult to talk\nabout, too difficult for them.\n\n\"It's a dead-end job anyway,\" said Kevin. \"The scrap business. I\nwon't stay in it.\"\n\n\"What'll you do?\"\n\nHe shrugged. \"What are you dojng now? You haven't told me yet.\"\n\n\"I'm working in the a hat department,\" she said in an affected voice.\n\n\"You!\"\n\n\"We get a very nice class of customer.\"  She arched one eyebrow.\n\n\"I'll bet.\"\n\n'You should see some of the old bags.\" Sadie rolled herx eyes.\n","Type":"Text"}}]