[{"node":{"title":"Lingard142","Collections":"Chapter 15","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard142","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Jeering, Backyard","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard142","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/Lingard142_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff134\n\nAt that moment the soldiers clattered out of the Raffertys' house.\nThey were empty-handed.\n\n\"Satisfied?\" demanded Mrs Rafferty.\n\nThey did not answer; they went on to the next door. Brian\nRafferty laughed, a loud triumphant laugh that made his mother look\nover at him.\n\n\"Where have you been?\" she called. \"And where's your da? That's\nwhat I'd like to know. He'd have given those louts hell if he'd\nbeen here. Come on in for your supper.\"\n\n\"Go on to your mammy,\" said Kevin.\n\nBrian glowered.\n\n\"Come on this minute,\" said his mother, and he went.\n\nKevin limped back up the street. The soldiers went from house to\nhouse, followed by a crowd of jeering children. They came eventually\nto the McCoys\u2019.\n\nMr McCoy blustered for a few minutes with Uncle Albert interspering a fewputting in some\nremarks and then Brede put her hand on her father's arm. \"Might\njust as well let them,\" she said. \"Save a lot of time.\"\n\nThe soldiers were quiet and  ashen-facedsolemn. Theirs was a difficult\njob. They had to keep their tempers whilst all around were losing\ntheirs.\n\nThey searched the McCoys house and found nothing. Kevin sighed with\nrelief, not that he had any reason to feel guilty, but for a few\nminutes, when they were inside, it had come to him that Brian Rafferty\nmight have planted his gun in their backyard or under the stairs.\n","Type":"Text"}}]