I then invited this mother, not of the boys, who was sitting down to leave. She made no effort to move. I said in the end to her that it would be better if she left as I was the cane was always used on a bare bottom.
The boys were 11. She just sat their, drinking her tea and told me that she had seen many a boy having his bottom caned with nothing on. She just sat and watched. She showed no emotion at all as the cane whiped across the boys bottoms. She just got up and left when it was over. However another mother in the 1960,s complained and left before the boys were caned as she did not wish to see them getting it on their trousers. In actual fact it was given on their pants.