[{"node":{"title":"Lingard015","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard015","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Terraced, King Billy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard015","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/Lingard015_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff13\n\n\"I'm real sorry I let the cat out of the bag on\", said Linda. \"It\njust slipped out without me knowing it.\"\n\n\"Now don't you worry, Linda,\" said Mrs Jackson. \"You did rright to\ntellus.\"\n\n\"Come on, Linda, if you're coming.\" Tommy stood by the door.\n\nLinda followed him. On the way out he heard his mother saying to\nhis father. \"I'm real glad Tommy's walking out going steady with such a\nnice girl as Linda.M Linda heard it too though she did not bat an\neyelash. Tommy shut the door behind them and they stood for a moment\nin the street, the small street of red brick terraced houses in\nwhich they had been born and brought up and had played together.\n\nTommy began to walk; she caught up with him. She complained that\nhe was walking too fast. He turned stopped when they were round the side of\nthe house and looked at her.\n\n\"Why did you have to do that?\"\n\n\"I didn't meanto.\" Her lower lip trembled.\n\n\"Oh, come off it, Linda, you knew you were going to tell them\nfrom the minute you walked in the door.\"\n\nLinda's lip steadied. \"Well,\" she said defiantly,\"I think Sadie's\na right idiot walking out eejit going with a Catholic boy Fenian.\"\n\n\"She's not walking out going with him.\"\n\n\"How do you know?\"\n\nTommy stood with his back to the wall with the mural of King\nBilly behind him, the mural that Kevin McCoy had once mutilated by\nwriting DOWN WITH KING BILLY in white paint, across it. It was the\n","Type":"Text"}}]