Ribald Classic: Fair Share
August, 1969
Alys, wife of the Master Cooper, was a fine, buxom, fair-haired, rosy-faced wench with strong blood and sharp appetites. Willem, her husband, was lean, saturnine, low of stature, afraid of many things and not much of a success in his trade. Marriages are made in heaven, but, as they say, sometimes even God sneezes--which was the only way to explain the mating of Alys and Willem.So, in the morning, Willem would go off to his trade of making casks of all sizes--from small firkins to kilderkins, ke...
