Now and then a class came up and did some task, and at times a boy got the tawse for his negligence, but never a girl.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
Two new officers and twenty men joined us yesterday-Captains Wilson and tawse.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson
Now the master indulged in an occasional refinement of the executive, which consisted in this: he threw the tawse at the offender, not so much for the sake of hurting-although that, being a not infrequent result, may be supposed to have had a share in the intention-as of humiliating; for the culprit had to bear the instrument of torture back to the hands of the executioner.
"Alec Forbes of Howglen"
George MacDonald