Carlos Was a Stubborn Boy

[This is an excerpt from a transcript of interviews between Emmilou Collins Edmonds Adams and her father, Carlos C. Collins, recorded February 14, 1982. Passages in italics are his actual words, although portions may have been omitted for brevity. Portions in brackets [] were added for clarification.]

Carlos Collins –
I’ve been just rambling around in my talk. This comes to mind. I don’t know about the earliest I can remember. I know I wore dresses and I don’t think I had any what I call drawers on at that time. Thinking I did something naughty and my mother [Amanda Jane Perryman Collins, 1860-1945] was going to punish me. I didn’t do something she wanted me to do and finally she took me over her lap and pulled up my little old dress and began spanking me on my little bare behind. And I kept saying, “It don’t hurt. It don’t hurt” and she kept putting it on a little stronger and finally she had to put the power and I bust out crying still saying, “It don’t hurt. It don’t hurt. It don’t hurt”. I have a vague remembrance of it, but my mother has told me about it a number of times. It seems that then I was kind of a stubborn guy who had a lot of nerve but very poor judgment.

Carlos is the one in the "dress"