I still tried to protest that I hadn’t meant to break the beaker but then a boy in the class told me to stop wasting time and go and get slippered. Sensing the hostility of my classmates who wanted to hear me getting slippered, I went with the teacher behind the blackboard and reluctantly bent over.
The teacher then whacked “the slipper” into my bottom knocking me forward with the force of the blow and causing me to emit a loud ‘Ow!’ to the amusement of my classmates. I then stood up but the teacher told me to bend down again because he wanted to give me another one. This time I jumped up just as “the slipper” was landing so that I didn’t catch the full force but the teacher told me that we needed to do that one again and so I clenched my buttocks and concentrated on keeping my bottom still while he slippered it properly bringing tears to my eyes.