MS-UoR-1477-1

[0018] off the boat and up with the grip to
main street and all the xxx wires gone,
just the rai nothing but ^{left only} the rails, was your
what year was that, was your mother still -,
ah for God's sake not at all, all gone long
ago, where did you stay then, that time
you went back to see was the old ruin still
there, someone's folly they said it was,

[0021] Barrington ^Maguire was it, Barrington'^Maguires Folly,
nothing left bit of the tower still standing,
all the rest rubble & nettles, where xi was
it you stayed then, all the homes gone,
was it that kip on the front where you went to -,
no, that was another time, Dolly was with
you then, no matter, or was it Nelly, no
matter, only one night in any case, after

[0021] all those years, off the boat one morning & back
on her again the next, to see was the only
ruin still there where you used to xxx
xxx x xxggy play as a boy ^child, slip off and when
they weren't looking and hide all day,
nettles xxx sitting on a stone in the
middle of the nettles with a book, [0025] or
xxx talking to yourself out loxd loud,

[0025] imaginary conversations, there was play
for ^you - ten years old ^{or eleven} sitting in xx ^an old ruin
on a stone in the middle of the nettles
inventing conversations, muttering till
you were hoarse now with the one voice now
with the other, well into the nig into the
night some moods, have them all out on
the roads looking for you,

[0032] well we've
had all that, now that time you went
back to see was the old ruin still there
in the field, straight off the boat and up
on to the main street to catch the eleven,
straigh neither right nor left only one thought
in your mind, not a curse for the old
places the old names, xx just head down

[0032] straight up from the pier to the old stop,
where the stop used to be ^was & stood there waiting
with the grip in your hand xxx till
the truth began to dawn [0035] on you, no getting
to it that way so what next, no question
of stopping xxx xxx to enquire ^asking bite
your tongue off first die rather, foot it
up to the railway station and get it out

[0035] to it that way, closed down, terminus
of the southern & eastern all closed down
& falling to bits, [0038] gave it up then, and
sat down on the steps in the morning [⁁]^sun, no,
those steps got no sun in the morning,
facing west they were ^{must have been}, northwest,

[0038] somewhere, went away somewhere
else and sat down ^{on a step} in the sun, a
doorstep maybe till it was time
to get on the evening boat, not the
morning, the evening, no need
to stay anywhere, [0021] that kip on the
front with Dolly, when was that,