Whole Dormitory Slippered

In the 1960′s at my prep school, the dormitory door burst open and the light turned on,some time after lights out. The matron,who had earlier told us to stop talking after lights out, stood insde the door with a slipper in her hand and ordered us all to get out of bed and stand at the end of the bed facing the wall, adding that we had been warned. There were twelve beds in the dormitory in two rows of six and she approached the first bed and told the occupant to lower his pyjama trousers and bend over the bed. This was followed by six loud whacks with the slipper. She then moved down one side of the dormitory and up the other side repeating the instructions and whacking. I was fourth or fifth in line, long enough for the fear to build up and too long to wait to rub my bottom

By the time she had returned to the door, there were 12 boys snivelling or crying with 12 sore bottoms. She turned off the light told us to get back into bed and that next time we would be dealt with much more severely. With that she closed the door and left. A short sharp lesson was learned as it was the first taste of corporal punishment for most of the dormitory.

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