Orphaned Alan Bell Artwork 3

Two more Alan Bell drawings unearthed by Uncle George. A couple of school-related ones from a single Justice magazine.

This one is titled Teacher’s First Lesson:

This pair of miscreants have had to report to the gymnasium for the first lesson of the day. The first exercise is to do a handstand and then be caned bare bottom in that position. One girl has already completed the exercise and is now perched on the wall-bars as her friend gets the same treatment.

The second one is titled Night Duty:

This one reminds me of Rosemead School for Girls. Perhaps the horrible Third Form boys raided the dorm earlier… “They would run through the dorm throwing water on the girls in their beds, and flicking them with ‘rats tails’ made out of towels, and then disappear. The Duty Master would come to investigate the disturbance and, as often as not, the girls would be punished for making a noise after Lights Out.”

In any event, having severely thrashed his favourite pupil Annabel, the portly bespectacled Duty Master makes a quick trouser adjustment as he considers whether or not she’ll be fit for another dose tomorrow, before moving on to complete the rest of his onerous Night Duty responsibilities.

Annabel, meanwhile, averts her face from the terrifying Mr Palmer and wonders, once again, why it is that she doesn’t seem to be able to do anything right in his eyes. If she can’t figure out a way to please him, her remaining five terms at the school look like they will be very painful indeed.