大象传媒

I remember one incident at St Magloire. We had one particular boy who was a bit lively, a bit troublesome, maybe a bit of a bully, but we used to have different gangs, and for some reason the main game, was to play on our buggies, or bogeys. We would get some old pram wheels and make a sort of go-cart out of it. One way of getting to school, actually! We鈥檇 push each other, and take turns, because there was no traffic on the roads, just the odd horse and cart and bicycles and that was it. Anyway, this boy being some trouble, we, as a group were going round the church for some unknown reason. Unfortunately there was an old lady, I think she was the caretaker who used to live at one end of the building, and for some reason the game was to go as fast as we could and smash into her back door, and see how hard we could go into it. I don鈥檛 think it was because we disliked the lady, it was just some silly thing that we did.

Anyway, obviously this was a bit of a problem, and I remember Mr Winterflood was then the Director of Education, though we didn鈥檛 know him then. We soon did though. One morning he appeared with a cane. Now whether he had come with it strapped to the crossbar of his bicycle, or he had just cut a bamboo from outside I don鈥檛 know, but anyway this boy was dealt with. I think that was the only time I saw the cane ever used.
BRIAN LE CONTE

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