A Spanking's Worth

When I was in high school, (I graduated 50 years ago) I read a story. I don't remember if it was in a textbook, or if it was in a book I found in the school library. The central character recalled a time a few years before, when his father caught him doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing, and said, "I hope you enjoyed that, because you're going to get a spanking." At present he had embarked on some forbidden adventure that he realized he would be punished for, and so decided to keep on doing whatever it was he was doing, so in his words, he could get a spanking's worth of enjoyment out of it. As I recall, he told his father this when he got caught, but his father decided not to spank him. The title of the story, as best I remember, was "A Spanking's Worth." Sorry I'm fuzzy on the details, but it's been a long time since I read this story. Does anyone else on this board recall this story and remember who the author was? Even more important, would this story be available today, and where?

Wait a minute Wheatwine, you found a book called A Spankings Worth in your school library? That must have been a real find. Perhaps at Amazon, you might try searching by the title.

Robert, it was a short story in a book. A Spanking's Worth was probably the title of the story. It was not the title of the book. Spanking was a politically correct subject in those days. Someone selecting that story may well have thought, "A story about spanking may cause the students who read it to behave better." Go back even further, and the same kind of thinking led a lot of parents to take their children to public hangings. The theory being that seeing someone hanged would prevent their children from growing up to be criminals.
There were things in books in the school library when I was in school that would be considered a lot more politically incorrect than spanking now.

This book has a story called "A Spanking's Worth" by Louise Baker.

I don't know if it's the same text, but it can be found here.

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