Under the rod: or swishing anecdotes

 Under the rod: or swishing anecdotes is an intriguing article from the Boy’s Own Paper annual for 1882 – 83. BoP was a children’s storypaper (comic) of the day. The article which has a chuckle in its voice details many real-life floggings and one or two from fiction.

“It has been wickedly suggested that if a schoolmaster who in his fondness for the rod … wants stimulus and variety, it would surely be a vast improvement to flog the master once a day.”

(Copies of the Boy’s Own Paper from this era are available from the Hathi Trust Digital Library here.)

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