Yes. I remember being involved in a snowball fight with two other boys in the lower sixth form. We imagined we would receive a reprimand from our form master to whom we were reported.We were told to remain in our class room in the afternoon break. The form master arrived. He told us we had set a bad example to lower formers. We admit ed this apologetically. To our surprise he opened his brief case, produced a plimsol and said he had no alternative to whacking us.We formed a line and bent over as in earlier years. We were further surprised and relieved only two whacks each were received .Although our bottoms were sore we expected more at least four.
It was our last slippering at school, although one of my friends got the slipper for smoking on the bus from the same master. He was an excellent teacher, but nobody would risk falling out with hi
