If there is one of you here that ever expect to whip your child again,
let me ask you something. Have your photograph taken at the time, and
let it show your face red with vulgar anger, and the face of the little
one with eyes swimming in tears. If that little child should die I
cannot think of a sweeter way to spend an Autumn afternoon than to take
that photograph and go to the cemetery, where the maples are clad in
tender gold, and when little scarlet runners are coming, like poems of
regret, from the sad heart of the earth; and sit down upon that mound,
I look upon that photograph, and think of the flesh, made dust, that you
beat. Just think of it. I could not bear to die in the arms of a child
that I had whipped. I could not bear to feel upon my lips, when they
were withering beneath the touch of death, the kiss of one that I had
struck.