Volume 26 – Café Woodys - The Woody Back to School Unit

95Jane Bowles had studied every word of wisdompublished on the www.woodettes.com web-site. Shehad digested Deborah Morton’s seminal dissertationon ‘The Art of Being Beaten’ and read Jojo’s sageadvise to ‘get yourself a mantra and then get with theprogram’.“It’s only whops, it’s only whops,” shemuttered as the slender cane sliced across her rearend.Although the smaller slimmer sticks used bythe Elite did not have the weight and heft of thecanes available to the Brass they were not to beunderestimated. In expert hands they could generatean extremely high degree of sting and smart.During the two periods Melanie White hadserved as Dorm Raider at the Woody facility she hadearned a reputation for performing stellar work withthe whippy ashplant.Jane Bowles caught her breath and puffed outher cheeks. She concentrated on keeping her fingersglued to the tips of her shoes. The shaft of the canehad landed right in the center of the sweet spot,intermingling with the swollen stripes left from hercaning from Cat. Jane Bowles swallowed hard. Thiswas going to be her first venture into an extendedbender and she quickly concluded that it was going tobe a trip to remember.Melanie gauged Jane’s reaction with experteyes. She had timed the opener at the hotter end ofthe scale and depending on Jane’s response she