[{"node":{"title":"Lingard143","Collections":"Chapter 15","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard143","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Englishman, Eighteen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard143","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/Lingard143_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff135\n\nIt would be easy enough to do: their door was unlocked all day.\n\nTeh whole street was searched and not a thing wae found. The\nsoldiers drove off to a chorus of booing and abuse and a hail of ston\nstones.\n\n\"They've only got what they asked for,\" declared Mr McCoy.\n\nThe neighbours were angry. Voices were raised in the street for\na full hour afterwards.\n\n\"I Certainly it's not a nice thing to have your home pulled over,\"\nsaid Brede with a sigh, as they sat in the kitchen drinking another\ncup of tea.\n\n\"I th thought an Englishman's home was meantto be his castle,\"\nsaid Uncle Albert.\n\n\"That's if your an Englishman,\" said Mr McCoy. \"If your an Irish-\nman that'sit's a different matter. You get treated like dirt by a everyone.\n\n\"I'm away up to bed,\" said Kevin.\n\nHe lay in bed listening to the voicesin the street outside. Most of them\nhe knew well for he had been listening to them for nearly eighteen years.\nHe was just on the borders of sleep when he the armoured cars returned\nto the street. The snoise made him blink and sleep slipped away.\nWhat was s up now?\n\nThe cars were stopping outside their house. Feet clattered on the pavement,\nvoices rang out. Kevin sat up, resting on one elbow, frowning. Gerald sat\nup too and nipped out of bed and wentto go to the window.\n\n\"There's soldiers at our door,\" said Gerald. He hung out of the\nwindow with an imaginary machine gun in his hands and sprayed them\n","Type":"Text"}}]