Smith Minor shares his caning experience

 

Here’s a piece of gentle humour from Neville Cardus who is possibly best remembered as a writer on cricket. Here he imagines how a small schoolboy would react to the controversy over the use of the cane in school that was never far away for most of the twentieth century.

Smith Minor prefers to be caned on the part of the anatomy where you sit down because to be caned on the hands might affect your cricket or tennis. This was written for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1941.

As published in the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), 30 August 1941

Picture credit: Unknown.

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