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Our Judge Jeffries was not noted for hanging but for giving fathers the right to spank their seventeen year old daughters. The previously referenced article is found in the second column regarding the judge’s precedent setting ruling. I wonder how many girls suffered moderate spankings on account of his jurisprudence.
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My Housemaster abhorred idleness, often quoting the old proverb that ‘idle hands are the devil’s tools’ and assuming that a boy who appeared to be doing absolutely nothing was in fact concealing some unseen devilment which required investigation and as like as not, a visit to his study where the cane would yield a confession followed by punishment. Any anguished protest that the boy had not done anything wrong was met with his other favourite quotation – the notorious Judge Jeffries when faced with a ne’er-do-well on whom no specific change could be pinned – “He’ll be none the worse for a good hanging”.
Of course, my Voltaire quote was in answer to negasman‘s post #790 on the previous page extracted here. Sorry I forgot to put in the original.
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Writing Candide at the very time, he must have been thinking of Admiral Byng’s unfortunate demise. A classic example of a man promoted too far, too fast.
‘Encourager des autres’ was very much our housemaster’s guiding principle. When he subjected a persistent offender to his much feared ‘House caning’ he made sure that the youngest boys were right at the front where they would miss nothing…
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such memories wonderful site and painful times always better when the caning was given by a lady teacher
and very painful hand tawsing anne
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Another_Lurker wrote: Hello Alan Turing,
Good to see you posting. However I am concerned that your usually inexhaustible supply of tram pictures may have been depleted for some reason as we’ve already had that one recently in your contribution here and I responded with my ever so slightly modified version in this post.
However, rest assured that insofar as I am concerned you have absolutely no need to post pictures of trams or resort to quotations to establish your credentials as a contributor who should not be idly gainsaid!
A_L, I’m sure that Alan Turing and other tram enthusiasts will enjoy this trip down memory lane. Old fogies like yours truly, who remember BBC radio programmes from the 1950s such as Dick Barton and Paul Temple will also enjoy the backing music.