It was common school gossip, spoken about with awe, and most chaps had seen the results when miscreants were returned by the head to the classroom, weeping and sobbing and in the most pitiful distress.
My friend and myself had served as the examples for our class unfortunately.
All of this aided in the canes’ powerful deterrent value.
Once you had received it once, you never, ever, wanted an encore!
That caning left me with extensive bruising that took over 3 weeks to fade,and I could not sit comfortably for nearly a week.