'More memories from Castelhow Minor'
When
I was in 4T the whole class was conscripted into the school choir. The
practices were held during the lunch period in the music room. One particular
day, when a few of us came from lunch ( the mess hall on the other side of the
road) there were very few pupils in the school yard , which we thought was
strange. As we came up the stairs by the men’s staff room
a few boys were standing
outside and Mr Casey was standing by the door. Upon seeing us he immediately
ordered us to the rear of the line. When we protested saying we were on our way
to choir practice he insisted in no uncertain terms for us to get to the back of
the line and refused to accept our statement. We
did as instructed. As we passed
through the door to the upper level of the assembly hall we could see why there
was very few in the yard, the line stretched to the art room. We waited as the
line reduced until we faced Mr Casey. When we asked what the problem was he
replied that we had been kicking a wooden block around in the yard (ball games
were forbidden) . The punishment was then administered
the cane on each hand, this the made us late for choir practice
and Mr Ormston ( music teacher) did not accept our excuse for being late
and administered his punishment, again cane
on each hand. The same afternoon 4T had a music lesson and when Mr Ormston was
out of the room Dickie Stenner went
to the cupboard and got the cane and smashed it into small pieces and threw it
out of the window ( Mr Ormston never found out what happened to his cane) Oh
happy days of youth.
Anyway belated happy New Year.