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A Caning for Celia
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Celia Sutcliffe was in her third year at Aylward's School.
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Although high spirited she was generally well-behaved and had
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kept out of serious trouble. Despite her petite stature the
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fourteen year old Celia was one of the best girls in her year
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at netball and she took the game seriously. That morning,
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after coming back from the game, she had got into a fierce
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argument with another girl in her team who, Celia considered,
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had "let the side down" and while they were in the changing
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room after the game, Celia had let her know how she felt about
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it.
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Wendy told Celia to "get lost" and to "keep your big mouth
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shut", then as the other girl was about to leave the room,
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Celia picked up a glass trophy from the window sill and flung
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it hard at the floor. The trophy shattered, fragments
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splattering in all directions. The other girls laughed and
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jeered at Celia's childish behaviour but Wendy suddenly let
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out a cry as blood ran down inside her school sock. For a
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moment there was silence, then the injured girl gave a yell
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and tried to throw herself at Celia threatening to "punch her
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head in."
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During the uproar and noise, the door of the changing room
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opened, and Mrs James, the senior mistress, came in to enquire
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what all the yelling was about. Wendy told her angrily, tears
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of shock and temper still trickling down her face. Mrs James
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looked at Wendy's leg. A piece of glass had unfortunately
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given it a cut. Though not deep it wouldn't stop bleeding, so
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she was sent off to the school medical room. The senior
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mistress told the other girls not to touch the glass fragments
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and sent one of them to fetch the caretaker to clear the mess
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up. Celia was taken to Mrs James' office to explain her
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actions.
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As the door of the senior mistress's office closed behind her
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Celia had never felt more alone. Of all the teachers in the
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school Mrs James was the very worst one to have caught her.
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Only the headmaster and the senior mistress were allowed to
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use corporal punishment and Mr Pearson hardly ever punished
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girls. Celia had never been sent to Mrs James, but several of
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her friends had and they all agreed that she had a heavy hand
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with a slipper.
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Standing with her hands clasped behind her back in front of
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the senior mistress's large desk Celia explained what had
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taken place. The senior mistress seemed quite sympathetic,
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saying that she believed that it had been an accident, and
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Celia gave a small sigh of relief at having got away with it.
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She really did feel sorry for Wendy because she really hadn't
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meant to hurt her - it was just temper that had caused the
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accident, and Celia felt a little ashamed of herself.
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The senior mistress stood up from behind her desk, and coming
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round to where Celia stood she tilted the girl's chin up so
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that she looked at her fully in the eyes. Then in a cold tone
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of voice she said "Although the injury was an accident, young
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lady, its cause wasn't, and any pupil in this school who acts
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in a violent manner which causes injury must expect an
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appropriate punishment, especially if, as in your case, school
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property is wantonly destroyed."
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Still with an icy look the senior mistress snapped "You are
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banned from taking part in form or school netball matches for
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the rest of the term, and you will write out 'I must not lose
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my temper' one hundred times. You will hand the lines in
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before school tomorrow. And finally, to impress upon you the
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seriousness of this matter I am going to give you six strokes
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with the cane across your bottom . . . you can either accept
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this now or go home and tell your mother what is going to
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happen tomorrow morning when you come to school, if you want
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her to know . . .the decision is yours."
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For a moment it didn't quite sink in, then suddenly Celia felt
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her stomach turn over when the full force of what had just
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been said to her registered. It was all so silly. She had
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never meant to hurt Wendy and was truly sorry that she had
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done so, but the manner in which the senior mistress spoke -
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talking about violence - was foreign to Celia, because she had
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never been that sort of girl, and to get a caning for
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something that she hadn't meant to do seemed very unfair to
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the trembling youngster.
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Besides, surely the cane was only for boys or for those girls
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who really deserved it - the continual trouble-makers or the
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school bullies, but certainly not for girls like herself. A
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few of her friends had had the slipper from Mrs James but none
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had ever been caned. Only two or three of the really
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naughtiest girls in her class had been, but she knew from
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their comments afterwards that it hurt a lot more than the
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slipper. It was all so unfair. As these thoughts ran through
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the girl's mind suddenly she was brought back to reality as
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the senior mistress snapped "Well, Celia, have you made up
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your mind? I haven't got all day to waste on you."
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Poor Celia had hardly ever had a smack in her entire young
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life, and she was very frightened at the thought of being
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caned. What could she tell her mother - she would never get
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over it. The thought of telling her that she was going to be
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caned for cutting another girl's leg open with glass was
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shattering to Celia, as well as embarrassing, and she knew
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that she couldn't do it.
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Celia hesitated, looking down at the floor, then with a
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trembling lip she said "Please don't tell my mum, ma'am,
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she'll be very angry with me for what I did." The senior
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mistress sighed, then in a more gentle tone of voice she said
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"You're a very silly little girl Celia, you could be a very
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nice girl but you tend to be precocious which can be very
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irritating at times. It is in your favour that you appear to
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regret hurting your classmate. However, that's beside the
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point and I must punish you as you deserve."
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Pointing to the door that led off from her study the senior
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mistress said "Go and wait inside there, I'll deal with you
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right away." Celia walked through the door that had been
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indicated to her. It was a small, comfortable room and looked
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all the brighter for the sunshine that beamed into it. Outside
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the window there was a walled, private garden that was backed
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by fields which bordered on to a small wood, a view that girls
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didn't see unless they were out of favour with the senior
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mistress.
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As the young offender went into the anteroom that adjoined her
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study, the senior mistress went across the room and unlocked a
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cupboard. Hanging on a rail inside the cupboard by their
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curved handles were several school punishment canes of various
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thicknesses, while on the upper shelf lay three large leather
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slippers, which had all soundly beaten the small bottoms of
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many naughty girls. Mrs James selected the thinnest cane, bent
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it reflectively and then replaced it. She took her time in
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deciding which rod to use. The deputy headmistress only used
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the cane rarely, but when she did cane she caned to hurt.
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Fourteen year old Celia was small for her age, but she was an
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athlete and very fit. At last she decided upon the senior
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schoolgirl cane.
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Taking the cane from its rail in the cupboard, the senior
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mistress bent it so that it sprang back fiercely, after which
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she swished it through the air a few times so that it cut the
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air with a loud hissing sound. This one would do very well.
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The senior mistress waited. She wanted the girl to suffer
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mentally as well as physically, so a few more minutes of
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waiting wouldn't do any harm. Mrs James felt that Celia
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Sutcliffe richly deserved a caning. Quite apart from this
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latest escapade she had for a long time felt that the foolish
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girl was rather vain and stuck up. Well this certainly would
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bring her down a peg or two!
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Celia looked up as the door of the ante-room opened. The
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senior mistress applied the latch to the door and for the
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first time the unhappy girl's fear almost got the better of
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her as she looked at the supple cane with which she was to be
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beaten in the Mrs James' hand. The senior mistress walked
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over to the window and drew the venetian blinds almost
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together so that the room was in semi-darkness, although at
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the same time it prevented "seeing eyes" looking into the room
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if a gardener was around. Then pulling a chair into the middle
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of the room the senior mistress tapped Celia lightly on her
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elbow with the end of the cane and snapped "All right girl,
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let's get it over with . . .take your blazer off . . . .lift
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up your skirt and bend right over the top of the chair with
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your hands resting on the seat."
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The pretty schoolgirl had never felt so scared. Tears of
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frustration stung the back of her eyes - she swallowed, then
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said impulsively "Please ma'am, don't cane me". The senior
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mistress was used to girls' pleading when they were in trouble
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and now that at long last she had the opportunity she
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certainly wasn't going to allow this one to get "off the
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hook".
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"Don't waste time Celia. Do as I instructed", the senior
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mistress snapped. Celia took off her school blazer and laid it
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on a table in the room. As she walked over to the chair over
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which she was to be caned, the senior mistress caught hold of
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her by the arm and said briskly "let's have this up"..
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Before the girl could move the senior mistress put her fingers
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under Celia's green school skirt and carefully rolled it up.
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Celia stood quite still, trembling slightly. The senior
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mistress had taken over and she didn't want to upset her
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further. Mrs James was used to this exercise. When the skirt
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was fully rolled up she pinned it into position and glanced
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downwards. The girl's young, smooth, soft thighs were on
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display above the grey school socks that came up to her
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knee-caps, her white cotton knickers clinging tightly against
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her body. Putting her hand to the back of Celia's neck the
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senior mistress said sternly "All right girl, bend over."
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Celia did as she was told. As she leaned over the top of the
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chair her knickers rode up just that little bit more. The
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senior mistress looked down at the youngster whom she was
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about to chastise then, pushing the top of the chair more
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tightly into the wrongdoer's tummy so that it brought the girl
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up on her toes, she took hold of the waistband of the girl's
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cotton knickers and pulled them tightly. Celia remained quite
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still. The roundness of her small bottom cheeks could be
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clearly seen under their white cotton covering. "Keep your
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knees tightly together" the senior mistress snapped, "I intend
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this to hurt a great deal."
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She moved away from the bending girl and after making several
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preparatory swishes of the cane through the air, which sent
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shivers of half fear and half expectancy through the waiting
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Celia, she tapped her lightly on the bottom several times with
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the rod. and then brought it down with a loud hiss and a
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thwack across the girl's firm rounded bottom. Celia gave a
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small scream and jumped hard as the cane bit into her.
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THWIP - again the cane rose and fell landing with accuracy
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across the now desperately wriggling teenage bottom that was
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being made to suffer.
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THWACK - again the cane slashed through the air to land with
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even greater force across the now stinging, throbbing small
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bottom of the young girl bent over the top of the chair. As
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the third stroke of the punishment cane cut across her
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buttocks Celia's lips began to tremble, hot tears forming at
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the back of her eyes as she tried bravely to hold them back...
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she mustn't cry.. only young kids did that, she was fourteen,
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not eight, and if the beating that she was now getting hurt
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like hell, well, she would try not to think of the pain and
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discomfort - she was a big girl now and... and... Suddenly
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Celia could endure the pain no longer. She gave a small
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strangled sob, then as the hot, salty tears gushed down her
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face the girl could no longer help herself, and sobbed as if
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her heart would break.
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But Mrs James had had a lot of experience of pupils who didn't
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like their just deserts and who thought that a few tears would
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save them from a well merited punishment, and if this little
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minx was trying it on, then she would soon discover that the
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senior mistress was not a woman to be fooled so easily. In a
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glance the senior mistress took in the neat little bottom
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looking up at her and the thighs and legs that led down to
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Celia's small feet. The softly curved thighs, so smooth and
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firm were more suited to a woman rather than a girl.
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Mrs James had no doubt that Celia richly deserved a caning and
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that it would have to be severe so as to convey the required
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message. She raised the cane high and brought it down to
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strike the bending girl with even more force straight across
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the top of her thighs, below the meagre protection of her
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knickers. Celia screeched and jumped up.
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The naughty schoolgirl clutched her limbs hard with both
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hands, and her tears fell hard, amidst small gasps of
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"oh.....oh .....oh" . The senior mistress felt pleased with
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herself.. She had long since discovered that not only did it
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badly hurt if a girl was struck in that manner, but the weal
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that would eventually show itself would often be visible under
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her skirt, especially during netballl practice, as a reminder
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that she had been a naughty girl and had been caned for it.
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"Back over that chair right away, girl," ordered Mrs James,
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harshly. "Unless you want extra strokes!" Still sobbing,
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Celia twisted round to face her chastiser, her hands still
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pressed to her outrageously stinging rear. Tears pouring from
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her eyes, she looked imploringly at the teacher, silently
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beseeching mercy. But none was forthcoming.
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"I mean it, girl. You've got another two strokes to come. If
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you don't get yourself back down again this minute, I'll call
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Miss Thomsett in to hold you down and you'll get four strokes
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and not two!"
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For a moment Celia continued to face the teacher, then her
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nerve broke and she turned and slowly lowered herself over the
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chair. The Senior Mistress waited until she was back in
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position and then, placing one hand firmly on the small of the
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girl's back, pulled her knickers up tight again. She noted
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approvingly the heat radiating from the naughty girl's bottom
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and how she squirmed involuntarily as she adjusted her
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knickers.
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She took her time over the last two strokes, which she
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intended to be the hardest of all. Somehow Celia managed to
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stay down, but her yells were audible over much of the school.
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At last Celia had received her full punishment of "Six of the
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Best", but she was careful not to get up right away.
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From outside, the noise and bustle of the other pupils leaving
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their lessons to go and get their lunch could be heard.
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Tapping Celia lightly on her back with the end of the cane the
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senior mistress snapped "All right, Celia, you can stand up
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now."
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The girl did as she had been told, rubbing her knuckles
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against her eyes to help offset the tears that were still
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flowing, while giving the occasional sniff of self pity.
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"Now go and stand and face the wall....when you've stopped
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crying you can go and wash your face in the washroom before
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going in to lunch. I hope that that has taught you a lesson"
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the senior mistress said sternly.
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Celia had experienced her first beating with a stinger of a
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cane, and it had only taught her one thing, that it hurt like
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mad. She stumbled over to the wall, her skirt still pinned up.
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Slowly the girl's tears stopped flowing, but oh, how her
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bottom smarted, and where Celia had rubbed her knuckles into
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her eyes, heavy black tear marks could be seen.
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The senior mistress's study was silent, then Mrs James walked
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over and unpinned the girl's skirt. She smoothed it down over
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Celia's wealed bottom, causing the girl to gasp with pain.
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"Right off you go, girl", said the teacher. Celia left the
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room that she had entered such a short time before, and going
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to the washroom on unsteady legs she rinsed her face under the
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cold water tap so that her eyes wouldn't look so red when she
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went into classes after lunch. As for eating Celia just didn't
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fancy anything,and was not yet ready to even try to sit down.
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Later when she had to sit down at her school desk ready for
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lessons to commence, grins from some of the pupils who knew
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"Celia had had the cane" didn't make her feel any happier. She
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lowered herself very carefully onto her seat, but it stilll
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took two attempts, provoking laughter from most of the boys in
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her class and a delighted grin from Wendy. Celia squirmed on
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the hard wooden seat in intense discomfort for the rest of the
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day's lessons.
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At long last the school day finished and Celia made for home,
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thinking of the lines she had yet to write and that she had to
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report back to Mrs James next morning. As she closed the door
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of her house her mother called out from the kitchen " Have you
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had a good day at school, darling?" "Not too bad, mum" shouted
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back Celia. If her mother only knew!
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