Collina, after grading your test paper on Gothic Literature it was evident that you and Rita shared your answers. I have discussed this with Rita and she confirmed what I already knew to be true. Now I'm not going to ask you if it is true and give you the chance to lie, as I'm sure that you would. As your teacher I don't have to do that, but I do have to make sure that this behavior isn't continued. Since it doesn't matter who instigated this infraction I'm going to punish you both. I've already punished Rita and now it is time for you to learn your lesson. I'm assigning you a dozen strokes with the tawse on your bare bottom. Come girl don't look like that, this is a lesson that you must learn. You will both have to retake the test and this time I'm sure that you will only reflect your own answers. The memory of the tawse will be my insurance...
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Tartan n Tawse - the sound of girl's crying & the smack of the leather strap on bare buttocks through open windows.
ReplyDeleteYUP! That was the sound of good Scottish parenting in yore, B.
A quote there from a male Janus reader who lived next door to a kind, strict mother with three daughters.
It was all normal n necessary, B. And ...the tawse was designed for use on a tender, bare botty, B, panties down! As shown in this photo sequence. Exactly as for Le Martinet too. "No protective clothing required to cover yer behind for a guid skelping lassie!! On yer bare backside be it, right now!"
The Lochgelly tawse will be skelping off a few layers of fairest, sensitive skin from her buttocks above, before she finally relents. ..and apologizes. Her sad, puppy dog eyes seek forgiveness, from ma'am, B.
Remember, B, the gorgeous Scottish lass, Sheena McBride, ruefully reminded y'all with her strict 1970s upbringing anecdotes of knicks-down tannings way back in Janus 62 (1987). She gotten the tawse on her bare buttocks from her papi when she was naughty growing up. For sure, that was the appropriate, traditional, bare bottom punishment needed for girls at home in the 60s, 70s & 80s.
The strap featured in the domestic accounts of raising daughters in Janus, B, in the 1970s: "I'll leather her bare backside & she will not sit down for a week" said one father. It was all par for the course, thank the Lord!
A fave Janus letter of mine, detailing the strap, is from a mother who details the bare bottom strappings that she & her two sisters gotten in the 1950s. And now her own two daughters have their knickers pulled down for the strap (in the 1970s) It is perfectly candid & unembellished - just what I like to read & research, B
She starts, "I was the middle sister of three in our family; we had a happy family life but we had to behave ourselves or the strap was used to instil the message through the culprit's bare bum"
Delightful, B!
Essentially, the three sisters gotten strapped, bare bottomed OMK & then over the sofa over the years. The mom was a prolific spanker - just a necessary domestic chore needed doing raising her girls. This was my mother's strident view way back, & indeed my own view entirely, B.
"skirt tucked up & knickers down far enough to allow unrestricted application of the strap for a dozen...then everything was back to normal except the sting on the bum"
She writes how all 3 sisters, gotten caught fighting & bare backsides gotten skelped: "sending us to our room to change into our pyjamas & return to the living room...mum waiting with the strap. We took off our pyjama trousers & went over the sofa, one after the other. The strap knocked the fight out of us & we went upstairs rubbing our behinds"
She continues
"the next thing I knew was mum back in the room & my sister across her knee with the strap in use on her bare bum"
"Mum turned me over bared my bum & laid the strap down"
There was no need to warn us to behave, we knew what was needed & what would lead to punishment, and talking with my sister years later we could not pinpoint any time mum strapped us when it was not deserved, and never at any time did she give us excessive punishment. In fact there were times when we all deserved more than we got."
There's also an account of their father leathering their bare bottoms with the strap, B, with all three sisters bent over the sofa at once.
"I got home convinced I would have no skin left on my bottom by the time dad had finished with it"...I do really like that line, B. I know how she feels!!!
And then another time, "I lay on my stomach that night and for a few nights after dad had stopped strapping my bare bottom"
For her 2 daughters: "they are trying to convince their dad that they should escape the belt"
Alas, B, "The girls were unlucky and had to bare their bums. They got twenty each. I even felt sorry for them, but they were over an hour late coming home and at school the next morning"
Hugs, Brenda xx
Great comments and super Janus letters!
ReplyDeleteShe felt she "would have no skin left on my bottom"
Whoa! I have to use that line in a future story!
Hugs and smackies :)
B xx