Engraving depicting a Dame school

Engraving depicting a Dame school, showing the teacher spinning while supervising the children as they learn to read and sew. Two little girls play with a doll. On the spinning wheel stand is a bunch of birch twigs ready to hit the children when they were naughty or inattentive

Birch Bunch Discipline Inattentive Learn Naughty Spank Spinning Supervising Switch Twigs

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