WESTEL ENGLISH DISCIPLINE The Beating Of Rosie Keller This is not ring around the rosie, it's corporal punishment of a severe nature. Rosie should have known that she would not get away without telling the headmistress who helped her mess up the cloakroom.Instead, she defies her headmistress with her silence and pays for it dearly with a flogging. The cane lands on her bare bottom time and time again!