She knew all about who had owned those dishes. She let me keep mine. But we left it in the display with hers. The only two left from that family’s whole set. The genuine article. Aunt Jayne’s whole house is the genuine article. A real Civil War era plantation. “Farm, Billyboy, this was a farm, not a plantation.” I don’t care. Real people lived here and all the stuff they actually used is here. There is a cannon out front too. I love it. It was left there with a broken wheel after a battle. Aunt Jayne lives in several rooms in the back, the front is the Museum of Daily Life on the first two floors and the cellar too. The third floor is the library. Aunt Jayne says that she should change it so the library is downstairs for the oldies, but then the kids would never come in if they saw the books first.
Just Desserts5
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Corporal Punishment in Mixed Secondary Modern29
He would have been investigated and warned only. Back then, teachers were getting away with ‘murder’. They had to...
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The jocari bat4
A small wooden oval shaped paddle shaped like a badminton racket. Measurements are 16 to 18 long, 6 wide,...
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School Punishment Book83
He mainly talked about a particular boy in my class who was a regular cane, but it is always...
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Smacked bottom games 1
During the 1970s, when I was growing up, a smacked bottom was such a routine punishment for a naughty...
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Edwardian Prep School Canings32
The head would apply anything up to 12 strokes of this thing, depending on the seriousness of the offense,...
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The Cane or Anarchy9
sorry to have to say it, but too many articles in that paper get politically slanted to suit the...
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Rules of the House Mother7
These slips would be posted into one of four boxes near to the entrance hall and collected at the...
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Mrs Wilkins83
“I’ll be good and take a nap, Belinda, I’ll take a nap.” “That’s my good boy. Why don’t you...