[{"node":{"title":"Lingard121","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard121","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Weeding, Department","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard121","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/Lingard121_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff113\n\nCHAPTER THIRTEEN\n\nThe dog, who was sitting on the garden path, saw her first and got up\nwith a welcoming bark. B Mr Blake looked up from his weeding.\n\n\"Sadie! Anything wrong?\"\n\n\"No\"\n\nHe came to the gate.\n\n\"You don't look your usual bouncey self.\"\n\n\"It's just that I've got the sack and Mrs KcConkey is dead.\"\n\n\"I see.\"\n\n\"I wanted someone to talk to. So I thought I'd come and see you.\"\n\n\"Come imHikE away in.\"\n\nThey sat in the kitchen. Sadie rested her folded arms on the kitchen\ntable.\n\n\"We always used to make fun of Mrs McConkey,\" she sighed. \"We\nwould shout names at her when we were small and then run like blazes\nbefore she could get the hold of us. She never did beacuse she was\ntoo fat. And now she's dead.\"\n\n\"Aye, it's bad, Sadie, there's no denying it. Scarcely a day\ngoes by without someabody getting killed, but when it's person you\nknow it's not so easy to take.\"\n\n\"It's not easy at all,\" said Sadie. She told him then alabout the\nwoman in the hat department.\"I don't know what I'm going to do now.\nI'll have to get something else before I tell my mother.\"\n\nMr Blake looked thoughtful. He stroked the dog's coat, flattening\nthe fur until Jack purred contentedly.\n\n\"Sadie, I could be doing with a bit of help. I used to have a daily\nwoman and then she got a bad back and couldn't come any more. I could\n\n(over)\n","Type":"Text"}}]