{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard194","Collections":"Chapter 20","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard194","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Job, Banter","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard194","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/Lingard194_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff185\n\nCHAPTER TWENTY\n\nBrede finished cutting the sandwiches and putlaid them inis a platsic\nlunch box. Her mother was pouring tea from a the kettle into a\nthermos flask. Her face was hot and flushed. Her eyes were on the\ngolden brown stream of liquid, watching carefully that not a drop\nwould spill, but her mind was on something else. Her eldest son\nwas going away.\n\nShe covered the stopper with greaseproof paper, pushed it in to\nthe neck of the flask. She looked round at her husband. He sat at\nthe table in his shirt-sleeves, reading the evening papxer, scratching\nhis head. He had tried to talk Kevin out of going away, but not very\nconvincingly. He knew that Kevin could not wander the streets\nindefiniately without a job. besides, the streets were no place to\nwander these days. And it was not the first time a family had seen\none of its children cross the water to Egnland to get work.\n\nKevin came in to the kitchen inwearing his suit. She had bought it for\nhim two years back for church-going. He had broadened since then\nand now it pulled across his shoulders. His mother pulledtooka hand-\nkerchief from her overall pocket and blew her nose.\n\nHe put his hands on her shoulders, and said \"Hey, come on now,\" he said \"\nit's not that bad. I'll be back to see you in no time at all.\nAnyway, I thought you'd be glad to be rid of me for a while.\"\n\n\"One less shirt to wash and iron,\" said Brede, trying to fall in\nwith his xbanter.\n\n\"One less mouth to feed,\" said Kevin.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1039"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard195","Collections":"Chapter 20","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard195","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Liverpool, London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard195","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/Lingard195_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff186\n\n\"And a big one at that,\" said rede.\n\n\"I'll be sending you money too,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"You'll need to get a job first,\" said his father.\n\n\"I\u2019m not worried about that. They're all waiting for me over\nthere to land.\" Kevin patted his mother's shoulder and walked over to the mirror andto straightened\nhis tie. He hated wearing a tie and seldom did, but it would please\nhis mother to see him departing in a suit and tie, neat and respect-\nable, and a credit to her.\n\n\"Better not be thinking the streets of Liverpool are paved with\ngold,\" said Mr McCoy. \"I hear there's plenty out of work there too\"\n\n\"Who said anything about Liverpool?\" Kevin gave the tie a final\ntwist. \"I might go to London.\"\n\n\"London?\" said Mrs McCoy doubtfully, for the sound of that was\nworse than Liverpool which could be reached by only crossing over a\nstretch of water. \"It's a/big city.\"\n\n\"The x bigger the better! There, how do I xxxx look?\"\n\n\"The girls of London wll fall about when they see you,\" said\nBrede.\n\n\"Aye, they'll likely think I'm a right looking eejit.\" He\nlaughed, and so did Brede.\n\nHe glanced quickly at the red and cream kitchen clock on the\ndresser. His mother's eyes swivelled to it too.\n\n\"I'll have to be off, Ma.\"\n\nShe nodded. She set the plastic box of sandwiches and flask on the\ntable. \"Have you room for them in your case?\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1040"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard196","Collections":"Chapter 20","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard196","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Company, Children","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard196","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/Lingard196_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff187\n\n\"Thanks, Ma.\" He lifted his case on to the table, opened it and\nput in the food. His mother fussed over the fladk, insisting on\nwrapping it in a napkin in case itthe tea would leak out over his clothes.\n\n\"Your Uncle Albert would have run you to the boat,\" said Mr McCoy.\n\n\"I didn't want any fuss.\"\n\n\"It doesn't seem right to be setting off from homegoing away without one\nof your family to see you off,\" said Mrs McCoy.\n\n\"Would x you not like me to come with you, Kevin?\" asked Brede.\n\n\"I'd just as soon go alone.\"\n\n\"O.K.\"\n\n\"You could walk down the street with me though.\"\n\nShe reached for her coat that hung on the back of the door. Mr\nMcCoy stood up. He cleared his throat.\n\n\"You'll write?\" he said.\n\n\"As soon as I'm settled.\"\n\n\"Watch the company you keep,and don't do anything rash.\" Mr McCoy\nput his hand in his pocket. \"Here's an extra fiver. You might need\nit.\" When Kevin protested, he pushed the note in to his hand. \"Go\non , take it. It's not often you get the chance of a fiver from me.\nAnd< oOne of these days I'll maybe be in need of one myself and then I'll\ncome to you then.\"\n\n\"I'll keep you in comofrt in your old age, Da.\"\n\n\"Aye, that'd be right!\" Mr McCoy held out his ahdnhand to his son.\nKevin. \"Good luck then, son.\"\n\n\"Thanks, Da.\" Kevin took his father's hand.\n\n\"Brede,\" said Mrs McCoy \"Call the children and tell them Kevin's\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1041"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard197","Collections":"Chapter 20","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard197","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Rafferty, Brede","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard197","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/Lingard197_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff183\n\nleaving.\"\n\n\"Kevin's leaving.\" The call went down the street; the children\ncame running.\n\nKevin kissed his mother in the hall. She would cry after he had\ngone but her eyes were dry now. She told him to see that he got\nenough food to eat and to make sure that he found digs with a comfortable\nbed and she hoped if possible he would find a place in a good\nCatholic family.\n\n\"Don't worry, I'll be all right.\"\n\"Good luck to you Kevin\" she said, and went back into the kitchen and closed the door.\n\nA crowd of children were jumping up and down on the pavement.\n\n\"It's lucky you are going away on a boat,\" said Gerald.\n\n\"Don't I know it?\" said Kevin.\n\nBrede waited for him a few yards further down the street. She\nstood with her a hands bunched into the pockets of her coat.\n\n\"Good-bye then, kids! Good bye Ma. Good-bye, Da.\"\n\n\"Good-bye, Kevin.\"\n\nThey called and waved until he was half-way down the street. He\nwalked backwards waving his arm. And then he truned to Brede and\nsaid, \"Let's walkgo quickly now.\"\n\nMrs Rafferty was standing on the opposite pavement. \"Is that you for\noff then, Kevin? Off to make your fortune, eh?\"\n\n\"You never know, do you, Mrs Rafferty?\" Brede called back.\n\nWhen they rounded the corner  and Kevin stopped. He put down the case. \"You don't need to\ncome any further, Brede. I want to go the rest of the way myself.\nYou don't mind?\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1042"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard198","Collections":"Chapter 20","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard198","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Suitcase, Ship","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard198","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/Lingard198_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff189\n\n\"Of course not.\" She gave him a little smile\" Well, Kevin, I'll miss you.\"\n\n\"I'll miss you too. You'll write and tell me how everybody is?\nAnd if there's anything wrong you must let me know. Promise?\"\n\nShe promised. TheyShe kissed one anotherhim quickly on the cheek and then she ran\nback round the corner, out of sight.\n\nHe picked up the suitcase and set off again. Ahead, at the entrance\nto the scrapyard, he saw Kate MaloneKelly. She was leaning against the\ngate post watching him. As he came nearer she straightened up and\nwalkedcame towards him.\n\n\"Can I speak to you, Kevin?\"\n\n\"I've nothing to say to you.\"\n\n\"I just wanted to say I was sorry. I must have made a mistake\nabout that box.\" She was walking beside him now in the direction of\nthe bus stop:. He lenghtned his stride.\n\n\"You don't expect me to believe that!\"\n\n\"Well, actuallyto be honest... Brian Rafferty made me. I wouldn't have told\nthe lie otherwise.\"\n\n\"Made you?\" As he spoke he realised that he d was not interested\nin what she had to say. It was all of it behind him now, Kate and\nBrian Rafferty and the beatings up and the bombs. He was heading out\nfor something new. For the first time since deciding to go away he\nfelt excitement stir inside him.\n\nHe saw a bus coming along the main road. \"Goodbye, Kate,\" he said\nand ran to meet it.\n\nThe ships' funnels stood loomed up behind the sheds. He sniffed\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1043"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard199","Collections":"Chapter 20","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard199","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Liverpool, Ship","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard199","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/Lingard199_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff190\n\nin the exciting smell of the docks, a mixture of sea and oil and\nsacks. He walked, swinging his case, enjoying the bustle and\nmovement around him.\n\nStanding beside the Liverpool shed was D Sadie. He ran the last\nfew yards to reach her.\n\n\"So you managed to come and see me off?\"\n\n\"Did you think I wouldn\u2019t?\"\n\n\"No.\"\n\n\"Anyway, I haven't come to see you off. I'm coming with you.\"\nHe was looking at her in amazement. She added anxiously, \"You don't\nmind, do you?\"\n\n\"Mind?\" He put down his suitcase and lifted her up and whirled\nher round till she was breathless with laughter. \"That's the best\nnews I've had in months.B But where's your luggage?\"\n\n\"I couldn't walk out of the house with a case could I now?\nYou'll have to take me as I stand. But I've bought my ticket.\"\nShe took the piece of paper from her pocket and held it out.\n\n\"Come on then,\" said Kevin. \"What are we waiting for?\"\n\n\"Nothing,\" said Sadie. \"Nothing at all.\"\n\nKevinHe took her hand and together they walked across the shed\nto the white, waiting ship.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 11:05","Nid":"1044"}}]}