Volume 1 Whops and Clobber R Humphries - The Woody Back to ...

Whops and Clobber
attending tutorials, lectures or other formal curriculum
activities.
Members of the Elite were granted thrashing
rights over the other inmates and carried short
whippy ashplant canes under their arms at all times.
The Ceremonial Thrashing into the Elite
fascinated him. Ms Lawton explained that at three
o’clock on the first afternoon of each new year the
twelve new prefects were assembled in the
gymnasium, where prior to receiving their official
prefectorial ties, badges and whippy ashplants, they
were bent over a vaulting horse and beaten by the
Grand Dame.
Ms Lawton told him that the tradition preceded
the establishment of the Back to School unit. She
informed him that many years earlier she had
personally bent over the vaulting horse to be
ceremonially thrashed into the Elite and had accepted
the beating without question or complaint.
Theoretically it was the last caning an inmate
would expect to receive, amongst the Woody Wags
the twelfth stroke was known as ‘The Final Kiss’.
However, Ms Lawton pointed out that this was
not always the case. She recalled her own
schooldays. Despite her reputation as the school’s
naughtiest girl she had been surprisingly appointed
the prestigious position of Red-shirt, the most senior
member of the Elite. During her tenure she had
established a record for being the most caned prefect
in the school’s history; a record she ironically took
over from none other than Patty Hodge.
Prior to the imposition of the austere regime
code-named Operation Scorched Arse caning of