[{"node":{"title":"Lingard068","Collections":"Chapter 8","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard068","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Albert, School","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard068","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/Lingard068_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff64\n\nlike you if I had. You know how to pick them, Kevin.\"\n\n\"Don't listen to him, Sadie,\" aid levin. \"He's full of smooth\ntalk.\"\n\nThey exchanged a fe$ bits of banter. Sadie was enjoying herself.\nShe liked the unexpected, missing the last bus, getting a lift in a\nfunny old car. Tommy led such a dull, predictable life, going for\nwalks with Linda, taking her to the cinema. They had the odd tiff\nbut even they were dull and predicatble: Linda would go off in to the\nsulks and come out of them when she saw that she mgiht be on the\nverge of losing Tommy.\n\nKevin sniffed. \"You don't smell brunigg rubber, do you?\"\n\n\"Burning rubber?\" said Uncle Albert. \"You're imagining things.\nSure anyway there's always a bit of a smell in this ould car. What\nelse could you expect with the age she is?\"\n\n\"It's just as well they don't have those Ministry of Transport\ntests over here the way they do in  England. You'd never get it\nthrough.\"\n\n\"Tests!\" scoffed Uncle Albert. \"I wouldn't have anything to do\nwith them. Never sat an exam in my life. Always mitched on the day\nthey had them. Not like your da, Kev. He was a serious scholar.\"\n\n\"It hadn't got him very far, thought Kevin, working on a building\nsite, but then he had had to leave school to help support his family.\nJust as he had had to do. He and hsi father were both eldest sons.\n\nSddie sniffed. She too xx fancied she could smell something\nburning but perhaps Uncle Albert was right: it was just a part of\n","Type":"Text"}}]