No blame attaches to PTI'S excellent translator; but to PTI'S printer, a ferule-rap for cold-bloodedly murdering the Emperor's Latin.
Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but .
A kind of miracle happened: the ferule of the teacher became the poet's magic wand.