Spanking Threats - Over 18 years old. 

 


Go Tell it on the Mountain  By James Baldwin

  •  Publisher: Dell Publishing A division of
    Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.


 


p. 219 - 220

And they watched the saints.  Now they all stood on the corner, where his Aunt Florence had stopped to say good-bye.  All the women talked together, while his father stood a little apart.  His aunt and his mother kissed each other, as he had seen them do a hundred times, and then his aunt turned to look for them, and waved.

They waved back, and she started slowly across the street, moving, he thought with wonder, like an old woman.

"Well, she ain't going to be out to service this morning, I tell you that," and Elisha, and yawned again.

"And look like you gong to be half asleep,"  John said.

"Now don't you mess with me this morning," Elisha said "because you ain't got so holy I can't turn you over my knee.  I's you big brother in the Lord - you just remember that."