Book description
At first Sight the Item may appear to be a Seat, its slatted wooden Top
curved as to fit the Shape of an Arse. Yet a Glance at the Straps and
Timbers of it reveals otherwise. The Apparatus is indeed concerned with
Posterior Matters, though not in the Mode of Sitting. One may rather be
sure that when its Function has been discharg'd, that very Position will
be best avoided. For the Thing is a Whipping-Bench, no less, made out of
the finest Oak to a Plan from Sir Montague's own Hand. It is unique to
the House and we hope to see it become the Envy of the Circuit. Thus
wrote the new bride at Ardingley End in 1728, drawing Jane
Barrett-Greene, National Keeper of 'Rare' Books and devoted corrector of
wayward youth, into a search for the original manuscripts. It takes her
- and a priapic young companion - to a disciplinary order in France
whose Director wields a vicious cane. Bringing her prize back to its
house of origin, Jane becomes embroiled in a scheme of the strict new
patriarch to re-enact a flagellatory tableau from the notebooks in the
Great Hall. At first Sight the Item may appear to be a Seat, its
slatted wooden Top curved as to fit the Shape of an Arse. Yet a Glance
at the Straps and Timbers of it reveals otherwise. The Apparatus is
indeed concerned with Posterior Matters, though not in the Mode of
Sitting. One may rather be sure that when its Function has been
discharg'd, that very Position will be best avoided. For the Thing is a
Whipping-Bench, no less, made out of the finest Oak to a Plan from Sir
Montague's own Hand. It is unique to the House and we hope to see it
become the Envy of the Circuit. Thus wrote the new bride at Ardingley
End in 1728, drawing Jane Barrett-Greene, National Keeper of 'Rare'
Books and devoted corrector of wayward youth, into a search for the
original manuscripts. It takes her - and a priapic young companion - to
a disciplinary order in France whose Director wields a vicious cane.
Bringing her prize back to its house of origin, Jane becomes embroiled
in a scheme of the strict new patriarch to re-enact a flagellatory
tableau from the notebooks in the Great Hall.
