McNulty was not exactly subtle. it was the boy’s first and last belting, he simply said “Now sit doon, ye’r no so clever when you have had a good leathering, ur ye?”. There was no denying the wisdom of that. McNulty muttered something about there being ‘a good dose of that’ waiting for anyone else who wanted it, and of there being ‘plenty more where that came from’ (something which never materialized; I never so much as saw a belt in school from that day until the day I left).
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