I remember it to this day. I was sent up to Mr. Woodlands to collect the cane and book by Mr. Jones who was going to give me a walloping for talking in class.
When I told Mr. Woodlands why I was being punished he told me to come back after school and to tell Mr. Jones that he was going to mete out the punishment himself.
I duly presented myself at his office after school with a fairly sizable exercise book tucked down the back of my trousers ( Mr. Woodlands always caned you on the bottom!). There was no way that he could not have noticed this book in the back of my trousers, however, he proceeded to give me six of the best. At the time I thought I pulled one over on him, but in hindsight, I knew that he knew! I think this showed a lot form and a measure of the man that was our headmaster. Bernard Scala