Going to school in Portsmouth

For several years we went to a school in Portsmouth kept by a Mr Waggett, we learnt the Eton Latin Grammar by heart, but understood little of it - the cane was frequently used in school, and on one occasion the master threatened to continue beating a boy until he did confess to having done something wrong - so the boy confessed at once - next day the Master had to apologise before all the boys for his unjust treatment, ujnder pain of four brothers being withdrawn from the school - the one punished was the bgest of them, and one of the others was the lazier. The father was a large farmer who afterwards went to America.