Billiards-Room Punishments

I have usually found the various games of pool and billiards to be dull, but this is a new use for the billiard table that I can entirely get behind:

two maids or household servants receive a bare-bottom birching bent over a billiards table while the master of the house watches with a glass of sherry at hand

Artwork is by unknown artist, from a 1913 French book Au bon vieux temps by an author with the unlikely but amusing name of “James Lovebirch.” I’ll bet he did, our James, I’ll just bet he did.

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