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In all her years, Mrs. Keyser gave only two whippings. One was to a child who called another teacher a name and the teacher insisted on the whipping. The second was to a boy who lifted up the girls’ skirts while they were rehearsing a Christmas program. ‘‘It caused such a fuss," she said. “I felt I just had to give him a whipping, and I gave him a good one.”
Other teachers were not so reluctant to use the switch. Mr. Robert Butler, who attended the Sperryville colored school next to where Charlie Lewis lives now, said that his teachers believed in swift and sure switchings. ‘‘But 1 never, never got a whipping,” Butler said. “I stayed in four or five times, though.”
Mr. Stant Weaver of Washington, who went to the old Round Hfll Scool between Scrabble and Boston, remembers a bit of impromptu discipline administered while the school was actually burning. ‘‘We had a bucket brigade,” he said. “And one of the boys, Walter Johnson, wanted the school to burn down. So when the bucket came to him, he threw it out the window. One of the men there threw a bucket in his face. That straightened him out.”
Billy Kilby’s teachers at Belle * Mead had a ready supply of switches available from the corner o£ his father’s orchard. “There were always plenty of water sputs there, and they could really cut. But I never got a whipping myself,” he remembered.
One of Billy’s brothers was disciplined while very young, by a teacher at Peola Mills,
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