[{"node":{"title":"Lingard135","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard135","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Polite, Aggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard135","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/Lingard135_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff127\n\ntomorrow he would be grumbling about having another mouth to feed,\nbut this evening he would bewas feeling happy and be patting his childre n\non the head and telling them what a fine bunch of kids they were.\n\nAfter tea he went off to the hospital with Brede to see his new\nchild. Kevin stayed at home with the rest of the family. He had\nnot arranged to meet Sadie that evening. Her aunt and uncle were\ncoming on a visiting and shesaid her fatmother was getting so annnoyed\nwith her that she thought she had better stay at home for once.\n\"Dead boring it\u2019ll be,\" Sadie had said, and Kevin grinned at the\npicture of Sadie sitting in the front parlour trying to make polite\nconversation with her aunt.\n\n\"So you\u2019re working for a man, Sadie?\" said her Aunt May. \"Well,\nwell!\"\n\n\"He\u2019s old,\" said Mrs Jackson sharply. \"And he used to teach Sadie at the school. Have another sandwich, May.\n\n\"Don\u2019t mind if I do. Though I should be watching my figure. Bert\nsays I\u2019m getting as fat as a/pig.\"\n\nHer husband had gone to the pub with Mr Jackson. Sadie satx with\nher mother and u aunt shifting around on the scratchy plush armchair.\nShe hated the furniture in the front room.\n\n\"Can you not sit still for a minute, Sadie?\" said her mother.\n\n\"She never could sit still, could she ,Aggie, from the minute\nshe was born?\" Aunt May bit deep in to a sandwich. \"Are you liking\nyour job then, Sadie?2\"\n\n\"It\u2019s great.\"\n\n\"It\u2019s only temporary,of course, May,\" said Mrs Jackson. \"She\u2019s\n","Type":"Text"}}]