Stage Fright!

‘Forty,’ said Cressida ‘and more if we squeezed
extra people onto benches.’
‘Right, if we charge fifty pence a ticket to come
and see A Christmas Carol we'll make er...’
‘Only twenty pounds,’ finished off Hen who was
wizard at maths.
‘We could thell some raffle tickets ath well,’
suggested Susie, shyly.
‘And programmes,’ added Harry.
Suddenly Sophie felt that raising the money was
going to be more of a challenge than a problem!
‘What wath the thecond important
announthement?’ asked Susie, a little louder than
usual. She was actually starting to enjoy being a
member of the DDC!
‘The second announcement is THE SCRIPT!’
said Cressida excitedly, forgetting all about leaving
Wissop and moving to Ditch.
Beaky had been busy. Beaky’s grandpa, whose
name was Albert and who also had a very sharp,
pointed nose and was very deaf, lived in Wissop in
one of those terraced cottages that is crammed so full
of books that when you open the front door you have
to squeeze down a tunnel of bookshelves just to get
to the kitchen at the back. When Beaky went round
to his house and told him about the DDC and that
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