[{"node":{"title":"Lingard009","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard009","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Lodge, Protestant","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard009","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/Lingard009_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff8\n\nand then sat down herself. She kept on her overall. Her think,\ngreying hair was garnished with rollers. She took her rollers out\nafter tea to sit and watch the television and then when the television\nclosed down at night she put the rollers back in again.\n\nThe men did not speak whilst they ate. They concentrated on the\nfood, wiping their plates clean afterwards with thcik hunks of\nbread taken from the packet on the table. Mrs Jackson talked all\nthe time, grumbling mostly about Sadie, shaking her head and sighing\nand sniffing. From time to time Mr Jackson grunted, supposedly in\n^agreement, but neither he nor Tommy listened. They knew what she\nwas saying without having to listen. Mr Jackson was thinking about\nthe Lodge meeting. It was an Orange Lodge, and they were preparing\nnow for the Srangs big Orange Walk   in the following month on the twelfth of July. He had\nbeen a member of the Lodge since he was a youth, and his father\nbefore him, but his son was not, and the fact grieved him. Tommy\nwas still a good Protestant, he knew that, but the did not seem to\nrealise that you had to be constantly reaffirming your faith.\n\nTommy was thinking about trying to decide which film he should take Linda to see.\nThere were two possibilities but one was rather violent and she\nliked what she called 'a nice picture'.\n\n\"Well I don't know,\" said Mrs Jackson. \"But there's one thing,\nshe's got no consideration for other people.\"\n\nTommy looked up. \"She'd give you her last penny.\"\n\n\"If she had one to give.\" Mrs Jackson sniffed. She got up to\nclear the dirty dishes. \"She spends her pay the day she gets it.\n","Type":"Text"}}]