Why, monsieur, the fact is, that that cane-the more I look at it-a rattan-exactly!
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
Twenty years after Dickens described Creakle a new teacher stood before a class in a large American city, and, holding a long rattan cane above his head, said in a fierce, threatening tone: Do you see that cane?
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes