for, but the cat-o'-nine-tails. Oh boy. He even poured the tails in the fire so they 'd be as hard as iron. And he beat this fella with the cat-o' -nine-tails. Got him down on a long bench and he beat the hell out of him. The young fella started bleeding out of the nose, and when he went home he never came back... . We had [that teacher] for five years. No wonder we were all dummies. Didn't learn anything. He was a good writer and he was smart in his own way but he had an awful temper. No, the parents wouldn't say anything. Do you know the reason they wouldn't say anything? He was a Protestant and we were all Catholics. They thought he was great. They wouldn't hire anybody else and let him go. That might show they were bigoted. But they were wrong, weren't they? Absolutely wrong. Jack Naddy 145