Once you got to the third year (15 years old or so) the beltings had thinned out to being almost remarkable and from fourth year they were most infrequent. All agreed, that boys who ‘stayed on at school’ i.e. didn’t bolt for freedom at 16 and volunteered to stay on for another couple of years, were not the sort of boys who needed strapping in the first place. Well, that was the theory anyway.
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