A girl who lived in the same street was very interested in a slippering I received from the P.E master for throwing snowballs at a group of girls, she wasn’t one of them but did witness it.Apparently, she heard every whack administered as she was in the playground under the window of the stock room where the P.E. master slippered me. She knew how many I received, which could have been a guess, she knew it was the plimsoll because of the noise it made, which also could have been a guess, but she also knew that I had to bend over the desk and hold onto the far side as instructed by the P.E master, she also commented that it must have hurt a lot as she heard me howl.
Everything she said was true which made it slightly embarrassing as when boys received the slipper in a mixed class we always tried to keep quiet even though it was agony especially when certain masters administered punishment, the PE master, of course, being one of those I asked my sister if she took an interest in boys being whacked she said she liked watching dad slipper me, I think she was joking, she also added that the girl probably fancied me, and a lot of the girls in her class enjoyed watching boys whacking at the front of the class
