The women laughed.

Some women were walking along the street pushing baby carriages, some with babies, some with groceries.

A little girl about four years old was trailing behind, sobbing, her face scarlet, her nose running into her mouth.

“I don’t want a spanking,” she wailed.

Her mother said, “Well then, be good if you don’t want a spanking.”

The women laughed.

–Venice, California, January 10, 1973.