Muir College

by Caroline Morris

I just thought I'd let you share a few of the goings on at the last Girls College.

We had no new tutors this time to play tricks on, so we were going to have to work really hard to catch out our regular tutors with a few practical jokes. Well actually it did not prove too difficult after all. In fact my tutor Mr. Prendergast got caught the most.

All four of us girls started off in high spirits as usual and when the Headmaster told us to go and get our pyjamas on ready for bed the first night, we did just thatÖon top of our uniforms that is. We could hardly contain our giggles when we came back downstairs, even Mr. Bernard and Mr. Tweed found it difficult to keep a straight face.

The Headmaster was not so amused and very carefully enunciating every word he told us to go back upstairs and change properly and return. As you can imagine all our tutors were waiting for us and we had to go over each one of their knees and get six spanks from all of them. Well it would have probably felt strange if we had gone to bed on the first night without a warm bottom.
Mind you that was not all that happened on the first night. Jane and I were sharing a dorm and Daisy and Tessa another. After light out Daisy and Tessa crept to our room and opened the door, peeking in wearing scary florescent Halloween masks. Jane and I just could not help screaming out loud which made Daisy and Tessa fall about laughing. They laughed so much they did not hear the Headmaster come up behind them. It was our turn to laugh a little when he made them touch their toes in the hall and smacked them with his horrid slipper.

Already spanked and waiting for defaulters

He told them he had better not catch them out of bed again after light out. He did not because they were much more clever the next night and waited until I scared my tutors half to death (his words) before creeping into his room and hanging a blow up luminous skeleton from his ceiling.
How did I scare my tutor may be wondering. Well he's a bit scared of spiders and I had an enormous glove puppet of a spider. I waited until he had gone into the bathroom to do his teeth then hid around the corner, from where I could stretch my arm, with spider, to hover in mid air in the middle of the door space. When he opened the door he walked straight into my spider hand. Boy can tutors scream! But as you can guess it was not long before he had regained his composure and his belt and dragged me of to the school room where he proceeded to make me scream. (Still it was worth it to see the look on his face when he saw the spider)

Before lessons had started Mr. Prendergast had Daisy and Tessa across his knee for a spanking then over his desk for the belt, it had not taken him long to work out who had put the skeleton in his room, he might be scared of spiders but he's not daft.

The first lesson we had did not start very well for Daisy, as she had not done the homework Mr. Tweed had set her to his satisfaction and was soon over his desk for twelve smacks with the paddle.

Mr. Bernard took us for German language lessons, which were really good as our cook was German (Katrin) and we could practice on her.

We soon learnt to count in German, if our attention wandered! On the last day we had a treasure hunt with all the clues written in German. I was partnered with Tessa and we won. The only problem was when we found the prize, a small box of chocolates; it also said inside that we were to have thirty strokes of the paddle if we wanted to eat them. We all did and they were only taps really.

That reminds me I got into frightful trouble over Katrin, it was break time and I was outside when Katrin started poking her tongue out at me. Big mistake as I was standing next to the hose pipe. I could not resist spraying her with water, she screamed like a baby and the Headmaster came around the corner and caught me red-handed. I was handed over to my tutor who made another part of me very red and sore with his spanking.

I got myself into a lot of trouble that evening at the dinner table. I am allowed one glass of wine with my meal but it was a really good wine that night and I wanted some more. I knew it would be a waste of time to ask, so when I thought no one was looking I took another glass, Tessa was giggling at me until she saw that Mr. Prendergast was watching me as he was talking to the Head. I don't know what came over me (a brave Pill I think) as I downed the glass of wine before he could take it off me. Immediate retribution followed in the form of a rotten bare bottom spanking in front of everyone, then I was taken into the classroom and lectured for ages on appropriate kinds of behaviour before getting the belt and then twelve strokes of the cane. To add insult to injury he then made me stand in the hall where all the girls, tutors and kitchen staff could see my sore striped bottom. That did it for me I resolved to behave myself for the rest of the term. In fact I mostly stayed out of the firing line after that.

Well actually I just didn't get caught again, ha!

Andrea was punished...

Andrea was punished, but didn't reveal it was Caroline's egg...

Meal proved to be very amusing at times; we were having cheese and biscuit one lunchtime. The plate of assorted cheeses was passed around, amazingly to the Head, Mr. Tweed and Mr. Bernard first before Mr. Prendergast got it. He then asked what some of the cheeses were and was told the one he was pointing to was Emmental a Swiss holey cheese. Try as he might he could not cut apiece from it and when his knife finally bent in half, nobody could contain themselves any longer and we all burst out laughing. Mr. Prendergast had diligently been trying to cut a piece of plastic joke cheese.

He got caught out again the next morning when we were served up eggs and bacon etc. He blithely poured tomato sauce all over his food and then tried to cut his egg, to no availed. Then in a very annoyed tone of voice demanded to know if any of the food on his plate was real. 'Now, now,' calmed Mr. Bernard, tying to keep a straight face,' there no need to have an existential crisis!!' At that we all fell about laughing again.

Mr. Prendergast went to the kitchen where he could be heard telling Katrin and Andrea that he would be seeing them later, which of course he did and then it was their turn to have warm bottoms. Andrea was a real brick not telling it was my egg and cheese I got her to swap.

It hard to believe he could be caught again but he was along with the Headmaster at breakfast the next day. We were having boiled eggs, he was given his first along with Mr. Bernard they both tried to cut the top off their eggs only to find that they were rubber. Mr. Prendergast demanded to know if the rest of the eggs were real, Jane and I proceeded to show him that they were by cutting the tops off ours; Andrea then gave them a real egg each. We girls were having real trouble not falling into hysterics but the Head then went to cut his, now convinced they we all real, only to find the lovely warm egg he held while trying to cut was also a rubber one!!!!

I think Katrin was wishing she'd had a very soft rubber cushion to sit on later.

The Headmaster got caught at teatime as well when he lifted the sugar spoon out of the bowl only to have the sugar fall everywhere as the spoon was hinged in the middle.

We studied astronomy with Mr. Prendergast, which I found really interesting but Jane didn't and Tessa got in to a right pickle when she refused to answer a question he put to her, she can be very stubborn at times.

He lost patience with her and made put her desk in the hall through lunch till she told him the answer he wanted. I was glad I was not in her shoes when he took her back in to the schoolroom. We could all hear him shouting at her and the caning she got. Still it was forgotten by the evening when we got to play some super games with our tutors.

We had made some super telescopes with Professor Savage in his class and on the last night we were able to go out and view Mars and the Moon through them and his astronomical telescope. That was fantastic. I really enjoyed the Prof.'s lessons even though I found the maths we had to do to calculate the various lenses very difficult.

Typical Muir College Girl

Jane and I actually got away with our last trick, while the tutors were busy setting up the telescopes, we set off a smoke bomb outside. Trouble was it got a bit ferocious so we kicked it down the hill and prayed it would not set fire to anything.

Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Bernard came out of the school and demanded to know where the smell of burning was coming from, well we honestly answered that we did not know, as we did not by then.

We did get some lovely treats too. As it was such a lovely day we were all taken for a walk to the fair where we went on the bumper cars. Of course all of us girls took great delight in ramming our tutors' cars. After that we had a boat ride on the river Wye and an ice cream. Now who says school is boring or bad; certainly not my friends or me. We can't wait to go back next March.

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