“A child of seven also got it for being disorderly and playing with electrical fittings.
“Another, aged nine, was guilty of similar crimes, and the doctor flogged him exactly as he flogs his own child.
“The countess said that the doctor’s admissions of all these things were in print.
“The committee expressed approval of the doctor’s cat and its five tails and the use he made of it.
“The English people believe in flogging children. Not because the children are helpless or that the floggers are cowards, but because it is wrong to spare the cat and spoil the child.
“(N.B. – It is not allowed by French or American law to flog children.)
“The affair of Dr. Keats’s flogging did not come on until 8 p.m.