[{"node":{"title":"Lingard127","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard127","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Bargain, Jackson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard127","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/Lingard127_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff119\n\n\u201dI expect you get that from your painting?\"\n\nMira nodded. \"AndThat's why I miss it nowso much.\"\n\n\"I was thinking about it on the way home on the bus last night,\" said\nSadie. \"And I thought I could look after your kids in the afternoons\nuntil I got another job and you could paint.\"\n\n\"Sadie, what a great idea! But I'd pay you of course.\"\n\n\"Oh no.\"\n\n\"Oh yes! I've been vaguely thinking of getting someone to look\nafter the kids. Mike's always gibing on to me about it and I never\ndo anything. He's keen for me to start painting again.\"\n\nThey shook hands on the bargain over the top of the gate. Sadie\nbegan at the Hendersons after lunch the same day. At tea-time she announced\nthat she now had two jobs.\n\n\"I'm working as a nanny in the afternoons,\" she said loftily.\n\n\"Minding kids?\" said her mother.\"You?\"\n\n\"Why not?\" I've\\been a kidx myself, haven't I?\"\n\n\"And never out of troublemischief,\" groaned her mother. If there was any trouble going in the neighbourhood I could be sure you were there.\"\n\n\"That helps me to know whatBest expereince there is for looking after kids\", said Sadie. \" I know what they're going to do before they do it.\"\n\n\"I should think Sadie would keep them in line all right,\" said\nTommy.\n\nMrs Jackson scratched the scalp between her rollsers. \"Honest,\nSadie Jackson, I never know what you're at from one day to the\nnext.\"\n\nJust as well, thought Sadie, thinking of Kevin, and unconsciously\nsmiling. He mother, noticing her smile, frowned suspiciously.\n","Type":"Text"}}]