“One boy he flogged was 13 years old. He was so happy with Dr. Keats that he got over the railings and absconded in his nightshirt and ran home in the rain. When the doctor got him back he gave him his cat-of-five-tails on the buttocks.
“Another ruffian, aged 11, was refractory and insulted the nurse and whistled and, worse than all, he wouldn’t stop whistling when told. Besides, he wouldn’t keep his hands off the paint and varnish.
“So the doctor gave him the cat.
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