One or two failed to heed the warning and to be fair to him, he didn’t react straight away but said that the next boy to cause a problem would be caned. Five minutes later I felt a sharp pain in the middle of my back, to which I reacted naturally with a loud “ouch”. I was called out straight to the front of the class, where I received the customary rollicking from Mr P, and then told to stand facing the blackboard. He clearly didn’t have a cane to hand, so sent one of the class monitors (a girl) to go across to the empty woodwork room and bring a cane which he said was on his desk. During the wait for the cane to be brought across,
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