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 taken into the laundry with only her chemise and a petticoat on, and held by two girls while she flogged her with a taws. She knows that the girl's garments got twisted in the struggle, but cannot remember whether they all came off or not. She is sure the girl did not receive more than twelve strokes, very likely not so many. After flogging the girl she went to her own room, she was so excited, leaving instructions to have the girl put under the spray-bath to cool her down. After whipping the girls she gave them the spray to revive them. Then a mattress was taken into the surgery and the girl was put in there. That very night she visited her in the surgery, and told her she had only punished her for her good. She taught her a little prayer, and then she prayed with her. The interview goes on to say: 'You did not enter the punishment in the records?' 'No, for the girl had never been in the schoolroom, and the punishment did not form part of the ordinary discipline of the school.' 'You consider that the punishment requisite to break a girl in should not be entered?' 'Well, I go upon precedent. I was assistant to the former matron, and in a case where a girl was pun