It was an era that accepted a level of physical violence between teacher and pupil. A good deal of whacking and pummeling had no reason other than the doing of it. When the school later moved to Hawthorn, the buildings were not ready and two grades were in marquees. Littlejohn would walk outside the tents thwacking at any boy whose shape made a bump in the side of a tent, and he roared with laughter as he did so
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