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

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From Nix to Nixdown
The fifth stroke slashed down causing Jojo to
take a sharp intake of breath. She shook her head in
an attempt to clear the fog of pain and desperately
struggled to prepare herself for the final stroke,
known amongst the Woody Wags as ‘the Closer’.
Ms Lawton’s trademark was the five-bar gate.
She would lay out the first five strokes evenly across
the crown of her victims bum and then slash the final
stroke down diagonally across the earlier stripes.
Jojo winced as the cane sliced down, agitating
the thin, swollen stripes that covered her behind. She
gripped the chair wrung and closed her eyes. The
heat of the stripe passed through her in waves and
she concentrated on keeping her breathing even.
Ms Lawton reached down and rolled Joanna’s
bumbags back in to place and then folded her skirt
down.