[dotti34]

This same headmaster was there when my siblings attended that school (a lot of years before me) and was very handy with the cane even then. One of my sisters told me of a painful trick played on him when she was in his class. Apparently he suffered from haemorrhoids quite badly so he always had a thin cushion on his chair. One day some of the lads who had suffered at his hands placed a number of drawing pins on said cushion (points facing up of course) and as these were of a similar colour to the cushion they were undetectable – that is until the poor man sat down on them……