I retained self control , and frankly would have been appalled if I’d lost composure and screamed or anything like it, indeed made not an ouch! . We were told to grit our teeth and take it like men. I was, as one not used to being caned, daft enough (in my friend Jackie’s words) to no only believe that but to try to emulate it. Yet I never saw myself as either brave or a hard man . ~That wasn’t in my nature.
I shudder to think how hard he would have had to cane to make me lose all self control, but, for him to have succeeded. it would without doubt have breached your rule on serious injury .I found out later that most boys came out of six stroke canings with him or the deputy head in pieces.
