Middle School’s Headmaster has a small compact office: behind the door there is a tall cupboard and it is on top of this that the Headmaster keeps his cane. This cane, that is feared throughout the school, is short rather like a riding crop, being about eighteen inches long and about half an inch in diameter. When a culprit arrives at the Headmaster’s door, after having been sent there by someone else, or summoned by the Headmaster himself, he is invited in; the boy may then explain why he has been sent, or make excuses for a known misdemeanor; if the excuses are unacceptable, as they usually are, these will be dismissed with the briefest of words;
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