Ribald Classic: The Pangs Of Love And Hunger

March, 1961

Once upon a time, a farmer's wife was having an affair with a young lawyer who was her husband's companion and confidant. The farmer, of course, suspected nothing, and all would have gone well but for the wife's appetite.One day the farmer invited his friend home to dine upon a brace of fine partridges he had shot. All afternoon the wife roasted and basted, roasted and basted, and the house was redolent with the aroma from her oven. The woman began to cut little slivers from the partridges, and...