slate-edge

Updated: June 6, 2025

One big boy spun the whirligig, while another held the small boy's palm till the sharp slate-edge gashed it. The wound was severe. For many years a long white cicatrice recorded the fact in my right hand. The ordeal was, I fancy, unique a prerogative of the naval 'bull-dogs. The other torture was, in those days, not unknown to public schools.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone