Miss Baxter did remove the boy’s trousers with rulerings sometimes heard it more than once from neighboring kids and I didn’t doubt it, judging from the floods o’ tears afterward. Girls didn’t get it on their knickers, at least I never heard of it, but some other schools around our neck o’ the woods were more equality-minded; the Headmaster or Headmistress literally applied slipper to the seat of pants every time.
When I was 11, we moved to Germany for 7 years, though I came back to God’s own Earth as soon as I could! More on that another day I never met anyone from Scotland who knew of Lochgelly Lil being used anywhere other than on the hand, at least in school.