Format: Hardback

Publisher: Collins Educational (1989)

Pages: 122

'There's only one part in the play for a girl, sir,' Nellie Allbright went on, unimpressed by Big Davo's threat. 'It's thingy against us girls.'

'Thingy?' Mr Wordsworth repeated.

'Definitely thingy,' Nellie confirmed.

Mr Seymour looked at Brain,. He had used him as an interpreter before.

'Could you define "thingy" for me, Webster,' he asked.

'Discrimination on the grounds of sex, sir,' Brain obliged.

'Is that it?' Mr Seymour asked Nellie Allbright.

'Probably,' she admitted, having faith in the Brain. 'You can get done for it now.'

'The play,' Mr Wordsworth explained, 'is traditional.'