We were hit at night, every night

[First term]

When it came to lights out, the dorm pigs would come round to hit each one of us first years in turn.

Here, despite my smallness, I did not escape and received my punch along with the rest. I do not, however, remember this as having the particular horror of the other bullying treatments.

One of the dorm pigs used to ask us where we would like to be hit. I always took it on the left arm, near the shoulder.

Amongst this cruelty - a hilarious moment. One of our year - a very large, well built boy - with a decent layering of tub on him - asked to be punch on the bottom. The punch landed and had no impact at all. His bottom perfectly absorbed the blow, without pain. If you think about it, it works - a punch to a flabby bottom won't do much harm. After that we were not allowed to request to be punched in this area.