<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:04d83127-aa75-4867-aa2f-d179ca93e784" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <hr/> <p class="first"><img alt="[Image]" class="art" id="fig_TheWhippingBoy_097_1" src="images/TheWhippingBoy_097_1.jpg" width="100%"/><a id="p90"/> </p> <h1 class="backtitle">Notes</h1> <p class="follow"/> <p class="left"><em>Readers often write to ask if a story is true. This tale is a work of the imagination, but the most surprising part of it is true.</em></p> <p class="follow"><em>Some royal households of past centuries</em> did <em>keep whipping boys to suffer the punishments due a misbehaving prince. History is alive with lunacies and injustices.</em></p> <p class="follow"><em>As Jemmy would say, "Gaw!</em>"</p> <hr/> </body> </html>