In many respects, this memory is clearer than even my own canings which stand out well enough and certainly clearer than the various rulerings, which at this range tend to merge together in my recollection.
Even allowing for the times we grew up in, I think Negus was a child abuser and a bully. To cane children as young as 5 or 6 must have been unusual, even for the 1950’s.
What it did do though, was prepare me to some extent for my own canings, the first of which was for some essay or other my class teacher had taken a dislike to, and the second, with another boy and two girls, for the awful crime of running on the newly seeded grass alongside the playground(we were playing kiss chase I remember and in our childish enthusiasm didn’t notice we had strayed onto the grass).