It had never before been required for use, and Mr.Lowington had carefully veiled every disagreeable feature of discipline, until it was necessary to exhibit it.

The brig was the prison of the ship--the lock-up.

It was located under and abaft the main ladder, in the steerage, being an apartment five feet in length by three feet in width.

The partitions which enclosed it were composed of upright planks, eight inches in width, with spaces between them for the admission of light and air.
The brig had been used as a store room for bedding by the stewards, and the students never suspected, till Shuffles' case came up, that it was not built for a closet.

Mr.Topliffe and his assistants removed the blankets and comforters from this lock-up, and prepared it for the reception of the refractory pupil.