BYSTANDER_IN_BLUE_FROCK BYSTANDER_IN_GREEN_HAT DR_JOSEPH_HEALEY ESTHER FEMALE_AUDIENCE_MEMBER FEMALE_AUDIENCE_MEMBER_2 FEMALE_AUDIENCE_MEMBER_3 FEMALE_BYSTANDER HENRY_HUNT HOME_SECRETARY_LORD_SIDMOUTH JACK JAMES_WROE JOHN_JOHNSTON JOHN_KNIGHT JOHN_THACKER_SAXTON JOSEPH_JOHNSON JOSHUA LORD_1 LORD_2 LORD_3 LORD_4 MARGARET_PICKERILL MARTHA_CONROY MARY MARY_FILDES MARY_WATERWORTH MRS_JOHNSON MRS_MOSS MR_COBB MR_GOLIGHTLY MR_GROUT MR_HOBHOUSE NELLIE OLIVER_THE_SPY PRIME_MINISTER_LORD_LIVERPOOL PRINCE_REGENT ROBERT SAMUEL_BAMFORD SARAH_HARGREAVES SUSANNAH_SAXTON WOMAN_AT_REFORM_MEETING_1 WOMAN_AT_REFORM_MEETING_2 WOMAN_AT_REFORM_MEETING_3 SAMUEL BAMFORD Mr Hunt, sir. SAMUEL BAMFORD Pray pardon the intrusion, sir, SAMUEL BAMFORD but may I say how heart-warming it is SAMUEL BAMFORD to hear a man speak from the heart SAMUEL BAMFORD on a subject so close to our hearts. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Aye. HENRY HUNT Thank you for your kind words. SAMUEL BAMFORD We are fellow reformers, sir, from Lancashire way. HENRY HUNT Indeed? SAMUEL BAMFORD Samuel Bamford and Mr Joseph Healey. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Doctor Healey. HENRY HUNT Gentlemen. SAMUEL BAMFORD Would tha care to join us in a pot of ale, Mr Hunt? SAMUEL BAMFORD 'Twould be a great honour for t'both of us. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Aye. HENRY HUNT Alas, I must soon return to my rooms, but I thank you, gentlemen. SAMUEL BAMFORD Good day, sir. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Good day, sir. MRS MOSS Might I trouble you to stand, sir? MRS MOSS Thank you, sir. OLIVER THE SPY You misplaced something, missus? MRS MOSS Mouse droppings. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH You are Mr. OLIVER THE SPY Richards. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH Mr Richards. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH And what can we do for you, Mr Richards? OLIVER THE SPY I think it's more of a case of what I can do for you, gentlemen. MR HOBHOUSE And what can you do for us, Mr Richards? OLIVER THE SPY May I? HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH If you must, but make haste. OLIVER THE SPY Thank you. OLIVER THE SPY I am a patriot, just like you, gentlemen. OLIVER THE SPY I would lay down my life for my country. OLIVER THE SPY I have certain information that I believe would be very useful to you. OLIVER THE SPY I have contacts. OLIVER THE SPY skills, ways and means. MR HOBHOUSE Where do you hail from, Mr Richards? OLIVER THE SPY Here and there. London. Just hard to say. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH Have you visited the North of England? OLIVER THE SPY Yes and no. OLIVER THE SPY But I'm familiar enough with the North, sir. MR HOBHOUSE These contacts. MR HOBHOUSE Are they in the North? OLIVER THE SPY Maybe. MR HOBHOUSE Debating clubs? MR HOBHOUSE Union societies? Reform meetings? OLIVER THE SPY Perhaps. MR HOBHOUSE Where? When? OLIVER THE SPY Soon. MR HOBHOUSE You receive visitors in London? OLIVER THE SPY Time to time. MR HOBHOUSE How many? OLIVER THE SPY Too many to count. MR HOBHOUSE Come, come, Mr Richards. MR HOBHOUSE We should need numbers and names. OLIVER THE SPY But of course. OLIVER THE SPY At a price. PRINCE REGENT My Lords and Gentlemen, PRINCE REGENT it is with deep regret that I am again obliged to announce to you PRINCE REGENT that no alteration has occurred in the state of my dear father, PRINCE REGENT His Majesty the King's lamented indisposition. PRINCE REGENT The distresses consequent upon the termination of a war PRINCE REGENT of such unusual extent and duration have been felt, PRINCE REGENT with greater or less severity, PRINCE REGENT throughout all the nations of Europe. PRINCE REGENT You will, I doubt not, feel a just indignation PRINCE REGENT "at the attempts which have been made to take advantage of the distresses of the country" PRINCE REGENT for the purpose of exciting a spirit of sedition and violence. LORD 4 ad libitum LORD 1 ad libitum LORD 2 ad libitum LORD 3 ad libitum PRINCE REGENT I am too well-convinced of the loyalty and good sense PRINCE REGENT of the great body of His Majesty's subjects PRINCE REGENT to believe them capable of being perverted PRINCE REGENT by the arts which are employed to seduce them; PRINCE REGENT but I am determined to omit no precautions PRINCE REGENT for preserving the public peace, PRINCE REGENT and for counteracting the designs of the disaffected. PRINCE REGENT And I rely with the utmost confidence PRINCE REGENT on your cordial support and cooperation HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH PRINCE REGENT in upholding a system of law and government PRINCE REGENT which I deem to be the most perfect PRINCE REGENT that has ever fallen to the lot of any people. PRIME MINISTER LORD LIVERPOOL Hear, hear! HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH Hear, hear! LORD 2 Hear, hear! LORD 3 ad libitum LORD 1 Hear, hear! LORD 4 ad libitum BYSTANDER IN GREEN HAT Give us a potato. BYSTANDER IN BLUE FROCK What? BYSTANDER IN GREEN HAT Gi'us a tattie. BYSTANDER IN BLUE FROCK What for? FEMALE BYSTANDER God save the Prince Regent! BYSTANDER IN BLUE FROCK What're you doin'? That's our supper. BYSTANDER IN BLUE FROCK Billy! HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH Lord Chancellor! HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH My Lords! HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH I have one of the most important communications HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH to make to your Lordships HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH that has ever been made to P-- P-- Parliament. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH His Royal Highness was only now leaving this House HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH when he was most viciously attacked with a stone LORD 3 ad libitum LORD 2 ad libitum LORD 1 ad libitum LORD 4 ad libitum HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH or, as some say, two balls, fired from an air-gun LORD 4 ad libitum LORD 3 ad libitum LORD 1 ad libitum LORD 2 ad libitum HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH or some other heinous instrument. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH The malignant spirit, born of the odious French Revolution, HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH is even now plainly persuading our people HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH that alone by open violence can their grievances be r-r- redressed. LORD 1 ad libitum LORD 2 ad libitum LORD 3 ad libitum LORD 4 ad libitum HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH I am deeply pained upon this occasion HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH to state that I require the suspension HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH of the Habeas C-- Corpus Act. LORD 1 ad libitum LORD 3 ad libitum LORD 2 ad libitum LORD 4 ad libitum HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH And my Lords, I ask that this power HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH should be communicated without d-- delay... LORD 2 Hear, hear! LORD 3 Hear, hear! LORD 4 Hear, hear! LORD 1 Hear, hear! HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH ...for here, procrastination would spell nothing short of r-- ruin. LORD 3 ad libitum LORD 1 ad libitum LORD 2 ad libitum LORD 4 ad libitum JOSEPH JOHNSON Good morning, gentlemen. JOHN KNIGHT Good morning, Joseph. JOSEPH JOHNSON I bring us good fortune. JOHN KNIGHT We can do with some of that. JAMES WROE Aye. JOSEPH JOHNSON I found this on Deansgate. JOSEPH JOHNSON How are you faring? What tidings? JOHN THACKER SAXTON How's the brush trade, Joe? JOHN JOHNSTON Grand. Grand. It thrives, John, it thrives. JOHN KNIGHT So, gentlemen, our response to this evil action. JOHN THACKER SAXTON We must be clear. JAMES WROE Indeed. JOHN THACKER SAXTON We have a duty to our readers to explain what a barbaric act this is. JOHN KNIGHT It may be that not every reader will understand what Habeas Corpus means. JOHN THACKER SAXTON Indeed. JAMES WROE Exactly so. We must remind them. JAMES WROE 'Habeas Corpus means every Briton's right to protection JAMES WROE against unlawful arrest and detainment without charge.' JOHN KNIGHT Uh, good. JOHN THACKER SAXTON It is a-- a cornerstone of our constitution. JAMES WROE Aye. JOHN KNIGHT Without which the common man is reduced to slavery. JOHN THACKER SAXTON Yes. Now, There are three classes of men. JOHN THACKER SAXTON Lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour and lovers of gain. JOHN THACKER SAXTON Plato. JAMES WROE We're aware it's Plato, John, but is it truly to the matter? JOHN THACKER SAXTON In my opinion, it is. JOHN KNIGHT I think not in this instant. JOSEPH JOHNSON Jack not in this morning? JAMES WROE He's fetching paper supplies. JOSEPH JOHNSON Grand, grand. JOHN THACKER SAXTON Read that out, James. JAMES WROE It is the cornerstone of our constitution JAMES WROE without which we are reduced to… SAMUEL BAMFORD Now then, lads. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Good morrow, gentlemen. JOHN THACKER SAXTON Sam. Doctor. JOHN JOHNSTON Good morrow. JAMES WROE Good day. SAMUEL BAMFORD How are you going at this end of t'country? JOHN KNIGHT How are you going at the other end of t'country, more to the point? SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye, we've been to London. JOHN KNIGHT When did you get back up? SAMUEL BAMFORD Last night. DR JOSEPH HEALEY By coach. We were inside. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye, keeping out of t'rain. JAMES WROE Please, gentlemen, make yourselves comfortable. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye. SAMUEL BAMFORD Smoky and dark as ever, were London. SAMUEL BAMFORD Shan't be going back there in a hurry. Oh, there were uproar. DR JOSEPH HEALEY There were attack on t'Prince. Did you hear on it? SAMUEL BAMFORD Did you hear about that? JOSEPH JOHNSON Aye. JAMES WROE So we heard, aye. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye. There were-- there were talk of gunfire. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Pistol shot, rifle shot-- SAMUEL BAMFORD Cannon fire. JOHN THACKER SAXTON We heard he was hit by a potato. SAMUEL BAMFORD Poor fat lad, wouldn't know what to do with a raw potato. SAMUEL BAMFORD But think on this. SAMUEL BAMFORD We saw Mr Henry Hunt addressing t'crowd. JOHN KNIGHT You saw Orator Hunt? SAMUEL BAMFORD Orator Hunt. Isn't that right, Doctor? DR JOSEPH HEALEY Aye, we saw him, we heard him and we were moved by him. DR JOSEPH HEALEY That right, Sam? SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye, at Elephant and Castle. SAMUEL BAMFORD Never afore did I see a man so gifted in public speak, SAMUEL BAMFORD and I've heard a few in my time. SAMUEL BAMFORD Thaself included, John. JOHN KNIGHT You're not so bad on the hustings, Sam. SAMUEL BAMFORD "Aye, I have a certain following, but not like this man." SAMUEL BAMFORD It's as if he were born to it. JOHN THACKER SAXTON We can all deliver a speech, Sam. SAMUEL BAMFORD Do not get me wrong, John. SAMUEL BAMFORD I'm not saying that thaself cannot turn a phrase, SAMUEL BAMFORD but this feller, he knows how to unite the crowd. JOHN THACKER SAXTON Do we not all do that? SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye, but h-he speaks with a-- a passion and a fervour SAMUEL BAMFORD about t'same matters and same concerns SAMUEL BAMFORD we've all been preaching about these past years, SAMUEL BAMFORD but when he does it, the crowd, they follow him. SAMUEL BAMFORD They're in t'palm of his hand. JOHN KNIGHT They say he's not a modest man. JOHN THACKER SAXTON Aye, vainglorious, I've heard folk describe him. SAMUEL BAMFORD Well, I daresay he's not perfect. Who of us here is? JOSEPH JOHNSON Was he wearing his white hat? SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye, aye, he were wearing his white hat. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Aye. Aye. SAMUEL BAMFORD "So you could see him, aye. Aye. You wouldn't miss him in t'crowd." JOHN KNIGHT Mm. Mm. JOHN KNIGHT Oh, Jack. JACK Good day, gentlemen. SAMUEL BAMFORD Jack. SAMUEL BAMFORD How do? JOHN THACKER SAXTON Jack. JOSEPH JOHNSON Here he is. JAMES WROE Is he not a landowner? SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye, he is a landowner, James, SAMUEL BAMFORD and a countryman and a wealthy one at that, SAMUEL BAMFORD and that gives him the wherewithal SAMUEL BAMFORD and the ability to fight for liberty and reform. JOHN KNIGHT True, true. SAMUEL BAMFORD Now, think on this: if you lads, through your newspaper, SAMUEL BAMFORD and t'Manchester Patriotic Union, SAMUEL BAMFORD are planning this big public meeting at Peter's Field SAMUEL BAMFORD to discuss universal suffrage SAMUEL BAMFORD and the election of a representative for Manchester in Parliament, SAMUEL BAMFORD then surely you would want Henry Hunt SAMUEL BAMFORD addressing t'crowd alongside t'rest of us. JOHN THACKER SAXTON We don't need some fancy dandy coming up here, taking over the show. SAMUEL BAMFORD Hey, John Saxton, I come here to speak as I find. SAMUEL BAMFORD Thy prejudice is thine own affair. JOHN KNIGHT But will this man be as effectual up here with our people JOHN KNIGHT as he is down there with London folk? JOHN THACKER SAXTON Aye. SAMUEL BAMFORD He would be effectual anywhere in t'country SAMUEL BAMFORD as long as there were a crowd to listen to him. SAMUEL BAMFORD From John O'Groats to t'Land's End. JOHN KNIGHT Did you speak to him? SAMUEL BAMFORD We made ourselves known to him, aye. We told him our business. JOSEPH JOHNSON And what was he like? In himself. SAMUEL BAMFORD You'd be hard pushed to say. He were-- DR JOSEPH HEALEY Aye. SAMUEL BAMFORD He has a round face. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Aye. SAMUEL BAMFORD You might say he were a bit bland. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Aye, but I do hear tell he has his own brewery. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye. True, true. DR JOSEPH HEALEY SAMUEL BAMFORD Now, if I am done here, SAMUEL BAMFORD my good wife has promised me a hot potato pie on my return to Middleton, SAMUEL BAMFORD so if tha will allow me, John, SAMUEL BAMFORD I shall be making my way up t'bank to avail myself of it. JOHN KNIGHT We shall give this matter our due consideration. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye, well, think on. DR JOSEPH HEALEY Good day, gentlemen. JOSEPH JOHNSON Good day. JAMES WROE Good day. SAMUEL BAMFORD Sithee later, lads. JOHN KNIGHT Good day. JAMES WROE Where are we up to, Jack? JACK Just off three hundred. JOSEPH JOHNSON Can you not go any faster? JAMES WROE A faster printer you'll not find in the whole of Manchester. JACK Thank you, sir. JOSEPH JOHNSON Right, gentlemen, I must away. JOSEPH JOHNSON Good day. JACK Good day. JAMES WROE Good day. MRS JOHNSON Here's tha beer, Joseph. MRS JOHNSON Who's tha writing to? JOSEPH JOHNSON Hush, woman. JOSEPH JOHNSON I am writing to the great orator, Mr Henry Hunt, JOSEPH JOHNSON Esquire. MRS JOHNSON Oh! MR COBB Here is the intercepted mail, Mr Grout. MR GROUT Thank you, Mr Cobb. MR GOLIGHTLY Mm. Exactly so. Most definitely, Mr Grout. MR GROUT Yes, I concur, Mr Golightly. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH Who is this Johnson? MR HOBHOUSE He holds a position of influence amongst the middle-class radicals of Manchester. MR HOBHOUSE He is a brush manufacturer. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH A brush manufacturer? MR HOBHOUSE Apparently. MR HOBHOUSE There is now little doubt that this mass meeting will take place. MR HOBHOUSE Legally, we cannot ban it. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH Alas, not. MR HOBHOUSE A working-class upstart orator is one thing, MR HOBHOUSE but a land-owning, self-styled man of the people like Hunt is quite another. MR HOBHOUSE We cannot allow this Wiltshire peacock to incite the disaffected masses under the spurious guise of parliamentary reform. MR HOBHOUSE This is a powder keg which will ignite at the slightest spark. MR HOBHOUSE I believe it prudent that we write to General Byng immediately. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH Indeed. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH Instruct him to increase his forces to the utmost degree possible. MR HOBHOUSE Post haste, my lord. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH And, Hobhouse, insist that the local magistrates exercise the g-- greatest restraint. MR HOBHOUSE Very good, my lord. HOME SECRETARY LORD SIDMOUTH MARY FILDES Dear sisters, welcome to the Manchester Female Reform Society. MARGARET PICKERILL They said we've got to pay, MARGARET PICKERILL but I'm not paying 'cos I 'aven't got 'owt to give. MARY FILDES There is no money to be given if you do not have it. MARY FILDES Please, do take a seat. MARGARET PICKERILL I'm 'right standing, thank you. MARY FILDES As you wish. MARY FILDES As I'm sure you are all aware, MARY FILDES there is to be a great meeting at St Peter's Field MARY FILDES to further the cause of reform. MARY FILDES We have reviewed for a considerable time past MARY FILDES the apathy and frequent insult of our oppressed countrymen MARY FILDES by the borough-mongering aristocracy. MARY FILDES And in order to accelerate the emancipation of our suffering nation, WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 2 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 3 ad libitum MARY FILDES we do declare that we will assist the male union formed in this town, MARY FILDES with all the might and energy that we possess, MARY FILDES in obtaining the object of our common solicitude. MARGARET PICKERILL I don't understand a word you're saying. MARTHA CONROY Give over and sit down. MARY WATERWORTH No, she's right. MARY WATERWORTH I don't understand what she's saying neither. MARGARET PICKERILL No. SUSANNAH SAXTON Ladies, please, SUSANNAH SAXTON you will all get a chance to speak. SUSANNAH SAXTON Pray silence for our president, Mrs Fildes. MARY FILDES Thank you, Susannah. MARY FILDES One man, one vote. WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 2 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 3 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 ad libitum MARY FILDES Representation for all of us, for each and every family. WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 2 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 3 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 ad libitum FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER Hear, hear! MARY FILDES We are neither ashamed, nor afraid, of thus aiding our menfolk, MARY FILDES and we are actuated by no motives of petty vanity. MARY FILDES We come together as wives, mothers, daughters and sisters MARY FILDES in our social, domestic and moral capacities. WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 Aye! WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 2 Aye! WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 3 Aye! MARY FILDES May our flag never be unfurled MARY FILDES but in the sacred cause of liberty, peace and reform, MARY FILDES and then may a female's curse pursue the coward who deserts the standard. WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 2 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 3 Aye! MARY FILDES And now, ladies, our secretary, Mrs Susannah Saxton, will say a few words SUSANNAH SAXTON Sisters of the earth, how could you bear to see the infant at the breast SUSANNAH SAXTON drawing from you the remnants of your last blood, SUSANNAH SAXTON instead of the nourishment which nature requires, SUSANNAH SAXTON the only subsistence for yourselves being a draught of cold water? WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 3 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 2 ad libitum SUSANNAH SAXTON We can no longer bear to see numbers of our parents immured in workhouses SUSANNAH SAXTON our fathers separated from our mothers SUSANNAH SAXTON in direct contradiction to the laws of God and man, SUSANNAH SAXTON our sons degraded below human nature, SUSANNAH SAXTON our husbands and our little ones clothed in rags and pining on the face of the earth. SUSANNAH SAXTON Our enemies are resolved upon destroying the last vestige of the natural rights of man, SUSANNAH SAXTON and we are determined to establish it; SUSANNAH SAXTON for as well might they attempt to arrest the sun in the region of space SUSANNAH SAXTON or stop the diurnal motion of the earth SUSANNAH SAXTON as to impede the rapid progress of our enlightened friends to Liberty and Truth. WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 3 ad libitum MARGARET PICKERILL You're talking bullscutter an' all. MARTHA CONROY Be quiet! MARGARET PICKERILL You be quiet! WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 2 ad libitum MARY WATERWORTH No, you sit down now and stop your brabblement. MARY FILDES Order! Ladies, please! SUSANNAH SAXTON We cannot bear the ponderous weight of our chains any longer. FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER 2 No. FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER 3 No. SUSANNAH SAXTON But we must tear them asunder SUSANNAH SAXTON and dash them in the face of our remorseless oppressors FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER ad libitum SUSANNAH SAXTON who have nearly picked bare the bones of those who labour. WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 2 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 1 ad libitum WOMAN AT REFORM MEETING 3 ad libitum MARY WATERWORTH They have, they have! SARAH HARGREAVES Aye, they have. SUSANNAH SAXTON The founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ, SUSANNAH SAXTON He was the greatest reformer of all. SUSANNAH SAXTON Sisters, the bitter cup of oppression is now full to the brim. MARY FILDES Well done, Susannah. MARY WATERWORTH It's true, it's true is that. MARY WATERWORTH We come out on strike last year. MARY WATERWORTH We were out seven weeks, wasn't we? MARGARET PICKERILL Aye, we wa'! MARY WATERWORTH They beat us back to work and we've got nowt to show for it. Nowt! MARGARET PICKERILL I've got two lads to feed, and I 'ave got nowt to gi' 'em. MARTHA CONROY Oh, be quiet, the both of you! MARY WATERWORTH No, you be quiet! MARTHA CONROY You be quiet! MARY WATERWORTH Don't you belder at me. MARY FILDES Ladies! SUSANNAH SAXTON Let us move on to the next subject on the agenda. NELLIE So... NELLIE let me get this straight, now. NELLIE There's gonna be a big march. JOSHUA Aye, Mother! ROBERT At Peter's Field. NELLIE Outside? ROBERT Aye! NELLIE No' indoors? ROBERT No. NELLIE In broad daylight? JOSHUA Yes! NELLIE On a Monday. ESTHER A Monday? NELLIE I know, it's daft. JOSHUA Second Monday in August. ESTHER Not go to work? ROBERT Aye, they'll have to make do without us. ESTHER We'll get the sack! MARY Not if all the mills turn out. NELLIE You're playing with fire. MARY No, Mother, this one'll be different. NELLIE Different? How? MARY Well, there's hundreds going; women and children an' all. ROBERT We've to turn out in our Sunday best. MARY Aye. NELLIE Ah well, I best get me darning needles out, then. MARY Aye, you should, same as rest of t'street will be. NELLIE I know they will, but so will that Nadin and his bullies, the swine. NELLIE They'll have to get past them! MARY Aye, but people have been practising marching peacefully. MARY Haven't they, Father? JOSHUA Oh aye, up on Kersal Moor, they say. ESTHER Childer? MARY Aye, 'ole families. It's a day out for everybody. MARY We've to stand up for ourselves, Esther. ROBERT We can't go on being afraid. NELLIE I know, love, but we've all got to be careful, though.