[{"node":{"title":"Lingard053","Collections":"Chapter 6","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard053","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"City Hall, Bingo","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard053","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/Lingard053_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff50\n\n\"Sure is he ever early?\" said his father.\n\n\"I've been waiting on you this half hour,\" aid Brian.\n\n\"Lay off, the lot of you,\" said Kevin, sitting down at the place\nset for him onat the table. \"I've been working.\"\n\n\"Idling around the streets, if I know Dan MaloneKelly,\" said Mr McCoy.\n\"And that reminds me, it's time you were asking him for a rise.\"\n\n\"How can he give me a rise?\"\n\n\"He was supposed to be making a fortune when yiou went to work\nfor him,\" said Mrs McCoy.\n\n\"Well, business is slacker now.\"\n\nKevin began to eat. He was wishing he hadn't bothered coming home\nat all but had taken a turn round by the City Hall at the same time\nas last night. Brian was fidgeting with a box of matches turning them over and over in his hand.When heAs soon as Kevin had finsihed his meal, Brian said at once,\"Are you right then,\nKevin?\" He made for the door\n\n\"Where are you two off to?\" asked Mrs McCoy.\n\n\"Nowhere in particular,\" said Brian.\n\nKevin followed Brian out. \"Where are we going?\" he asked, when\nthey were in the street.\n\n\"To my house. I've somethingt to show you.\"\n\nBrian's mother was out at the Bingo and his father sat in front\nof the television set looking very subdued. He was nursing a sore\nhead. Brian said he had had too much drink in him the night before\nand ended up in a fight.\n\n\"Come on,\" said Brian. \"Up the stairs.\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]