Paula’s Puzzle Picture 2 — View Halloo

From Fessée 3

Letter from Fessée 4

Since I live in a small market town with farms scattered all around the area, it seemed to me, looking at the characters in What a View, Halloo, that the two countrymen leaning on the stile and watching the young lady on the horse having her bare buttocks beaten, are taking it very much in their stride. They have seen this sort of thing before. The young woman, with her bottom in the air and being beaten by her two companions, one male and one female, is probably a younger sister and clearly accustomed to her mistakes and misdemeanours being dealt with in this fashion.

She could hardly have arrived on the back of the horse without her riding breeches by accident could she? Therefore this has happened before. She has a good seat! As to what she has done to merit such stringent treatment at the hands of two people whom I believe to be her sister and brother-in-law, I’m not sure. I can hazard a guess, but it would be to do with some lapse of duty connected with the farm or the stables, and while she is yelling quite lustily, most of it is an act. She is loving it really, isn’t she Paula?

D.J., Durham

Paula’s answer: ‘Yes’ (A woman of few words, our Paula. Ed)