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Daisy Pulls It Off

Daisy Meredith is an intelligent and adventurous elementary school student who lives with her mother and brothers in London. She has taken an exam that could earn her a scholarship to the prestigious all-girls Grangewood School. Daisy hopes to be accepted, as it would open up opportunities for her to study subjects like Latin and Greek and make new friends. She is anxiously awaiting the results letter from the exam. When it arrives, Daisy discovers that she has won the scholarship. She is thrilled to now have the chance to attend Grangewood in the fall.

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Daisy Pulls It Off

Daisy Meredith is an intelligent and adventurous elementary school student who lives with her mother and brothers in London. She has taken an exam that could earn her a scholarship to the prestigious all-girls Grangewood School. Daisy hopes to be accepted, as it would open up opportunities for her to study subjects like Latin and Greek and make new friends. She is anxiously awaiting the results letter from the exam. When it arrives, Daisy discovers that she has won the scholarship. She is thrilled to now have the chance to attend Grangewood in the fall.

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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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