Pop Goes the Daisy

Narrator: Rosie's super proud of being a free spirited engine. she boasts endlessly about it, but she works super hard, too, and makes everything go like clockwork. it was a super splendid day. the Freight Cars and coaches behaved perfectly. the passengers even stopped grumbling. but the railroad engines didn't like having to bustle about it."

Rosie: "There's 2 ways of doing all sorts of things, the right way, or the wrong way. I'm a free spirited engine and-"

Thomas, Percy, Toby, Mavis and Stanley: "Don't we know it."

Narrator: The railroad engines and Mavis were super thrilled when a visitor came by. she came smoothly right towards them. she was being introduced.

Fat Controller: "Fellow engines,"

Fat Controller's Wife: "here's Daisy the Diesel Rail-Car,"

Fat Controller: "we agreed to give her a trial,"

Fat Controller's Wife: she needs to learn everything,"

Fat Controller: "please show her, Rosie."

Rosie: "Good afternoon."

Daisy: "Pleasure to meet you, Rosie. is that Thomas, Percy, Toby, Mavis and Stanley too? I'm so delighted to meet such popular engines."

Narrator: The railroad engines and Mavis were super flattered.

Thomas, Percy, Toby, Mavis and Stanley: "she's got super good manners. we're super pleased to have her in our yard."

Narrator: "Rosie had her doubts."

Rosie: "Come on."

Narrator: Daisy trundled after her."

Daisy: "Your worthy bosses..."

Rosie: "Yeah, Daisy?"

Daisy looked a bit stunned.

Daisy: "Your worthy bosses think I really need to learn everything. they must've been mistaken. us diesel engines don't need to learn everything. we know everything. we come right over to every single yard and improve it. we're revolutionary."

Rosie: "Oh really? if you're revo-thingummy, perhaps you would collect my Freight Cars while I fetch Toby's coaches."

Narrator: Daisy, delighted to show off, trundled away. when Rosie returned, Daisy was trying to take some Freight Cars from a siding. they were super old and empty. they hadn't been touched for a super long time. Daisy found them super hard to move around here.

Daisy: "Pull! push! backwards! frontwards!"

Freight Cars: "Yow! yow! we can't! we wont!"

Narrator: Rosie watched with interest. Daisy had lost patience."

Daisy: "Grrrrargh!"

Narrator: she gave a super big heave ho. the Freight Cars jerked frontwards.

Freight Cars: "Oh nooooooo! we can't! we wont!"

Narrator: Some of their joints snapped, and their wheels jammed right in the lower body.

Daisy: "Grrrrargh!"

Rosie: "Tee hee, hee."

Narrator: Daisy recovered and tried to push the Freight Cars back, but they wouldn't move. Rosie trundled silently around to collect the other Freight Cars."

Rosie: "Thanks a bunch for arranging these, Daisy, but I must go right now."

Daisy: "But don't you want this lot?"

Rosie: "No thanks."

Narrator: Daisy gulped nervously.

Daisy: And I took all of this trouble? why didn't you just tell me?"

Rosie: "Well, you never asked me. besides, you were having such fun and excitement being whatever it was you just said. goodbye."

Daisy: "Grrrrargh!"

Narrator: Daisy had to help the drivers and firemen clear the mess away. she really hated it. all of the Freight Cars were laughing and singing rudely at her.

Freight Cars: ***Cars are waiting in the yard, tackling them with lazy, show the world what I can do, gaily boasts the Daisy, in and out she creeps about, like a big green crazy, when she takes the wrong cars out, pop goes the Daisy!***

Daisy: "Grrrrargh!"

Narrator: Daisy scuttled away to sulk in her diesel engine house."