[{"node":{"title":"Lingard021","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard021","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Albert, McCoy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard021","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/Lingard021_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff19\n\nPete McCoy, dark/and handsome and curly-haired, with a fine\npersuading tongue on him,had come along and wooed her and brought\nher to the city. He had told her she would like the town, its\nbustle and excitement, but all she ever saw of it was this street\nof brick terraced houses and the main road beyond where she did her\nshopping. And instead of fishing for tiddlers or climbing trees\nher children played at death.\n\n\"Up the rebels!\" shouted Albert.\n\nHe and his brother laughed, and the children cheered. Gerald urged\nthem on and away they went down the streeet, walking stealthily on the\nballs of their feet as if they were stalking the an enemy.\n\n\"You'dve h k no call to encourage them like that, Albert,\" aid Mrs McCoy\nquietly.\n\n\"Sure you take everything too seriously,\" said Mr McCoy. \"Come\non, Albett, I think you and I'll take a wee trip down to the pub\nand have ourselves a jar.\"\n\nMrs McCoy turned and went    intoback to the house. Brede stood by the\ndoor watching her father and uncle get into the car. It careered\noff down the street back-firing loudly. It could have been the sound\nof gunfire. The xx sound made Brede shiverfreeze inside.\n\nShe  xxxxxxxxx xxx returned to the kitchen where her mother now sat\nwith a basket of mending at her feet. Her face was composed again\nthough her eyes looked sad.\n\n\"Are you all right,  mumMa?asked Brede. Mrs McCoy nodded. \"I though t\nI'd take a walk down the street and see Kate for a wee while.\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]