Having carefully considered the evidence he had come to the conclusion that the boy’s skin was not bruised by the whacking which he received, but that in the course of being beaten he squirmed or moved so that by accident the toe of the instrument bent round the boy’s buttocks and grazed him in two places on the leg. People who punished little boys like the plaintiff must be careful, but he was satisfied that in the present case no unnecessary violence had been used and that really the matter was a storm in a teacup. There had been no undue violence shown and the grazes from which the boy suffered were small and trivial and were caused by accident. There would be judgment for the defendant, with costs.