[{"node":{"title":"Lingard131","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard131","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Cave Hill, District","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard131","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/Lingard131_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff123\n\nto the hospital?\"\n\nThe other woman dropped the iron.\n\n\"Don't get flustered now,\" said Mrs McCoy. \"This is my ninth after\nill so I know what I'm doing but I'd just like to have it t in the\nhospital. I have my bed booked after all.\" To have the baby at home would mean missing those few\nlovely days of peace and rest with the order t of the hospital around\nher and the friednly attention of the bustling, cheerful nurses.\n\n\"Where the devil's Kevin now?\" said Mrs MaloneKelly.\n\n\"He went out early on. He might not be back for hours.\"\n\n\"Sure he could have run to the phone while I stayed with you.\"\n\n\"But he isn't here,\" said his mother. \"After all, he wasn't to\nknow I'd be needing him.\"\n\nKevin was walking in the park with Sadie and Moira's two children.\nHe had taken to coming over to the neighbourhood most days. He would\narrive abound mid-morning at Mr Blake's in time to have a cup of\ncoffee with them and then he would wash Mr Blake's car or potter round\nthe garden. He was so unused to gardens that the very feel of soil\nand grass felt starangstrange to his fingers. When he lay on the ground up\non Cave Hill he did not actually put his fingers into the earth.\n\nAnd In the afternoons he went with Sadie to collect the children.\nHe felt safe with Sadie in the district: they could walk without\nlooking over their shoulders. Mo one knew them. In his own street\nhe felt that eyes followed him as he walked. At every corner he braced himself, half expecting to be jumped on. When he came to meet\nSadie in the evenings he left his own neighbourhood by devious routes\nfeeling partly annoyed that he should have to be bothered by such\n","Type":"Text"}}]