Ribald Classic: Something Better Than Marriage

November, 1967

Once there was a young Cossack named Gritzko, a strong and handsome boy but generally considered to be something of a fool. On a day when he was tending the sheep out on the steppes, his father said to his mother, "We ought to marry off Gritzko. He is of age now and he needs a good wife to look after him.""All right, let him be married," the mother said, "but first we must think of some way to teach him what marriage is about. Our poor son is so simple that his bride may...