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    Daisy Pulls It Off

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    DAISY PULLS IT OFF

    By Denise Deegan
    (to the audience)
    Daisy Meredith, daredevil, tomboy,
    possessed of a brilliant mind, exuberant,
    quick-witted, fond of practical jokes,
    honourable, honest, courageous, straight
    in all things and... an elementary school
    pupil. Father – dead. Mother – a former
    opera singer who struggles to keep a
    home together for herself, Daisy, and
    Daisy’s brothers – Dick, Douglas, Daniel
    and Duncan in a small terraced house in
    London’s East End, by giving music
    lessons to private pupils. Daisy has
    recently taken an exam which will, if she
    succeeds in passing it, enable her to gain
    a place as the first ever scholarship pupil
    at Grangewood Girls School, one of the
    most famous educational establishments
    in the country. If, however, she fails the
    exam, she must leave her elementary
    school at the end of the year and take up
    some form of ill-paid menial work to which
    she is little suited. Thank you
    (to herself)
    I do wish the postman would hurry and
    bring the letter containing the exam
    results – but it isn’t even eight o’clock yet.
    I must win the scholarship. I so want to
    go to Grangewood. How topping it would
    be to learn Latin and Greek, to play
    hockey on their famous pitch, to make
    friends with all those jolly girls and have
    midnight feasts and get into fearful
    scrapes just like they do in books. I
    should miss Mother, Dick, Douglas, Daniel
    and Duncan of course... and all my chums
    at elementary school. But I must win the
    scholarship for the sake of others as well
    as for myself, for if I, the first scholarship
    pupil at Grangewood, make a success of
    the scheme, Grangewood would open its
    doors to other elementary school pupils,
    as poor as myself.
    Mother! Oh, Mother, I’m through! I’ve got
    the scholarship! I can go to Grangewood!
    (To the audience) The summer holidays
    passed all too slowly for Daisy, that is,
    until the time came to say goodbye to
    those she loved best.
    (At the train station)
    Write often, Mother, I’ll be dying to know
    what you’re all doing, and any news you
    may hear of my old school pals.
    See you at the end of term!

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