Fletcher, your punishment will be 8 strokes with the senior cane. Lift up your skirt and get over my desk again.”

He took his place on the wall. What left only one more thing for me to do: disciplining Jenny Woods. I had the other three come to my desk and take their punishment information cards. I then dismissed them and had Woods face my desk.Sir -- I am very glad your newspaper has brought into the realm of discussion the above subject. I am headmistress of a school, in which there are 175 girls from 8 to 19 years, and I find it necessary to spank on the bare seat for disobedience. Last term I caned a girl of 19 years for giving trouble, and I must say it did her good. How is it brutal to punish in that way? If I hit the girls on the head, or continually nagged at them, I should be the victim of criticism. Your correspondent, "Parent," is very reasonable in her remarks. No amount of criticism will restrain me from inflicting capital [sic] punishment in the way I have done. I detest using the lash, but I have no other alternative. Now, Addler, I am going to give you 8 strokes of this junior cane. Of those, four are for wearing incorrect uniform and the other four are for your intolerable behaviour towards your female classmates. This caning will hurt a great deal – it is meant to, so you learn from it. I expect you to take it without any interference, is that clear?” When he visits "Dai" Llewellyn the match is much more evenly balanced, and they have an uproarious time. It is hard to know whether Moore or the old-Etonian Llewellyn has his tongue further into his cheek. Dai Llewellyn (d. 2009) was an upper-crust playboy, epicure and wit (later Sir David Llewellyn, Bart) who, on a whim and purely for fun, had bought up the defunct Bognor Cane Company, former supplier of punishment implements to schools. Right, I’m going’ I shouted, and without waiting for a reply, left the house. I crossed the garden, stepped onto the pavement and pushed open the next door gate. I hesitated slightly, and glanced up at the house, which was strangely foreboding. In a moment of decision and commitment, I strode up the path and rang the bell.

Getting Away with It: Shari is constantly in trouble, requiring regular trips to Mr Wallace, the school disciplinarian. It's even worse when she gets punished at home too, on top of an already sore bottom. She gets into further trouble by telling Mr Wallace she has been awarded three strokes of the cane - a lie, as she should be getting twelve. Unfortunately her crime is discovered, and she receives a terrible punishment from the Head, made worse by the application of a caustic cream to her seat. Miss Birch vanished, and papa arming himself with a formidable r od, elegantly trimmed as usual, began by lecturing me on my fault. No, Williams. I want you to serve as an example for the others. It seems to me that you wanted others to take a look at your posterior, so we will let them, don’t you agree?”I sat down on one of the chairs in front of my desk and took hold of Jennys arm. Like a much younger girl, I guided her over my knee. With a few short moves I adjusted her position to my liking and then adressed the three pupils still standing there, nose to the wall. I was nearly eight years old before I began to notice the significant looks which occasionally passed between papa and governess, but hints were so often thrown out about the necessity of procuring a good birch rod for the naughty bottom of Lucille, that I was gradually awakened to the discovery of some most mysterious kind of understanding which must subsist between them. My infant brain was much puzzled and alarmed, as I ​already felt in imagination the tingling smart of the green twigs I so much dreaded. Consequently we have given her permission to administer a punishment like the ones at her school, and she has agreed to do this as a favour to us. Not only will you go and apologise, but you will talk to her, listen to her, answer her questions, and accept any punishment she decides you need.’