The whole school was assembled and the girl was marched up onto the stage. The girl stood there, white faced, between two mistresses and a school chair was brought onto the platform by a prefect. Xxx Quite minor misdeeds, when found out, were punished with corporal punishment. These last punishments were really terrifying events and in all my school days I only saw one. Although the stick landed with a painful ‘THWACK!’ the stroke would only travel some two or three feet to it’s target. After all I have enough material to draw on! The latter were only allowed to use a ‘slipper’ which was a well worn gym shoe and always given on the bottom, but teachers beat us with slippers and canes (or straps according to personal preference) on our bottoms and canes on our hands and bottoms. This one and ‘Now we are
