Perhaps it was this more than the hiding which got to you. Also he really believed in walloping you after you had turned 15 and would tan the arse off you. In fact as I reflect upon this a hiding never seemed as bad when with your mates or other lads around of the same age. The point about unfairnness is true for all punishment and is not an argument against corporal punishment per se but given his scale, and that there were very stated rules for behaviour which could merit a thrashing House Beatings were an unfair tilting of the balance.
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