[{"node":{"title":"Lingard040","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard040","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Flute, Ulster, British","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard040","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/Lingard040_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff38\n\nSteve sat down.\n\n\"We've been to the pictures,\" said Linda.\n\n\"Guess where I've been?\" said Steve to Tommy. \"I've joined the\nLodge.\"\n\nTommy said nothing.\n\n\"I keep telling Tommy he ought to join,\" said Linda. \"After all\nmost of the men round here belong. I'd like to see him walking on\nthe 'Twelfth'\"\n\nTommy shrugged.\n\n\"Why don't you, Tommy?\" said Steve. \"You could still play in the\nband. \"\n\nTommy had once wanted to play the flute in the Junior Pipe band,\nbut that was before the fight in which Brede had almost been killed.\nThat night when they thought she might die he had decided not to\nwalk in the Orange parade. Both Linda and Steve knew that, though\nneither could understand it, and he could not quite explain it. It\nwas not as if he had changed his allegiance: he would never do that.\nAs far as he was concerned, Ulster w must stay British and Protestant.\n\n\"Sure it's good crack apart from anything else,\" said Steve.\n\n\"I like the Twelfth,\" said Linda. \"The bands playing and all\nthat.\u00bb\n\n\"I think we should be getting home, Linda,\"  said Tommy.\n\n\"You're a stubborn a one, aren't you?\" said Linda.\n\n\"I think perhaps he isn't much of a Loyalist when it comes to\nthe bit,\" said Steve. \"There's times when you have to stand up and\nbe counted.\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]