The headmaster, however, did not cane him immediately, but made him come back at lunchtime, and then did not cane him and told him to come back the next day. This happened for a few days and we used to see this terrified boy outside the head’s room every lunchtime waiting for the cane.
Eventually, the deputy head took some sort of pity on him and caned him himself! The only good thing for the boy was the fact that he was caned on the bottom rather than the hand.