The teacher who had caught us swearing was going to be our geography teacher for the first period after lunch. As he came out of the staffroom he told us to wait there, while he went and got the class started. He returned 10 – 15 minutes later and told us to follow him into the staffroom. There was a young female teacher at a long table marking a pile of exercise books, but Mr…. went over to a tall wooden cupboard and got out a cane.
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