[{"node":{"title":"Lingard050","Collections":"Chapter 6","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard050","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Yard, Fight","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard050","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/Lingard050_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff47\n\nsix foot four and as broad as an ox, a man who was ready to fight and was afraid of nobody. Except his wife.\nKevin had always overlooked that. Now Pat Rafferty bored him, and\nwhen the man was drunk he thought he was just stupid. There waswere\ntimes too now that SteveBrian bored him, and this bothered himx a bit for\nthey had been friends all their lives.\n\nThey turned along the road that led to the scrapyard.\n\n\"I'll come along with you,\" said Brian. \"I've plenty of time. \"\n\nKevin glanced at him ssideways. \"What's on your mind?\"\n\n\"You're a good patriot, aren't you, Kevin? You always have been.\"\n\n\"That's right enough.\"\n\n\"You beliveve in the cause?\"\n\n\"Well,of course I do, you know that. I'm a republican.\"\n\nThey had reached the gate of the yard. Kate's father was already\nmoving around inside it sorting out bits of junk. Kevin raised his\nhand in greeting.\n\nBrian put his hand on Kevin's armx and said in a low voice,\"We\nhave to be prepared to fight for what we believe in,Kevin.\" No\nresponse came from Kevin, so Brian added, \"Are you ready to fight?\"\n\n\"I don't see what good it would do.\"\n\n\"You can't mean that.\"\n\nKevin shrugged.\n\n\"Kevin,\" Kate's father called, \"come and ggive us a hand. I can't get\nthis thing moved.\"\n\n\"Just coming, Mr MaloneKelly\"\n\n\"Meet me later, Kevin,\" said Brianx urgently. \"It's important\"\n\n\"Kevin,\" called Mr MaloneKelly again.  \"I'm going to drop this blasted\n","Type":"Text"}}]