The players in this little cameo of school history were the prefect and my brother Nils who was the trembling student who had inadvertently taken some notes into the Memorial Hall where he had been sitting for the school exams. The punishment was one of choice. Face the school headmaster and possibly dire consequences or take a six stroke caning from the head prefect. The captive studen although never really fond of pain was still a master of doing what was most advantageous to his own best interests.
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