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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Then cut along and call a prefects' meeting," said McTurk, knowing Tulke's weakness. The prefect became inarticulate with rage. "Mustn't yell at the Fifth that way," said Stalky. "It's vile bad form." "Cough it up, ducky!" McTurk said calmly. "I I want to know what you chaps are doing out of bounds?" This with an important flourish of his ground-ash. "Ah," said Stalky. "Now we're gettin' at it.
He has the same paternal creed in a more primeval form. He considers his children as his absolute property. He rules them with a rod of iron, or rather of ground-ash. In fact, the ground-ash stick is his social religion. The agricultural labouring poor are very rough and even brutal towards their children.
The greater number carried in their hands ground-ash saplings, using them partly as walking-sticks and partly for poking up pigs, sheep, neighbours with their backs turned, and restful things in general, which seemed to require such treatment in the course of their peregrinations.
It was Carson, the head of the school, a simple, straight-minded soul, and a pillar of the First Fifteen, who crossed over from the prefects' table and in a husky, official voice invited the three to attend in his study in half an hour. "Prefects' meetin'! Prefects' meetin'!" hissed the tables, and they imitated barbarically the actions and effects of the ground-ash.
"It's the ground-ash, ma'am," responded master Dick, taking one of the coils from his pocket; "the best riding-switch in the world. All the whips that ever were made are nothing to it. Only see how strong it is, how light, and how supple! You may twist it a thousand ways without breaking. It won't break, do what you will.
The restriction being removed, the neck distinctly articulated the words "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!" Against such demonstration as this any mere theological theorizing is of no avail. Flogging. It may justly be demanded of the essayist that he shall give some small thought to the question of corporal punishment by means of the "cat," and "ground-ash."
Georgie won his growth and chest measurement, and a few other things which did not appear in the bills, under a system of cricket, foot-ball, and paper-chases, from four to five days a week, which provided for three lawful cuts of a ground-ash if any boy absented himself from these entertainments.
Thanks in large part to their house-master's experienced distrust, the three for three consecutive terms had been passed over for promotion to the rank of prefect an office that went by merit, and carried with it the honor of the ground-ash, and liberty, under restrictions, to use it.
A good strong ground-ash is not to be despised if cut at the right time, but it is always apt to split or break. Turning to the rattan-cane, we find a capital solid cane almost unbreakable but with rather too much bend in it for thrusting, or warding off the rush of a savage dog.
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