Ribald Classic: The Hole In The Bed

March, 1971

There is an old saying in China: "Teach your son in the hall but your wife on the pillow."This is all very well—but Shu-t'ung was old and ugly and his ability to give pillow lessons had much diminished in spite of his acquisition of a beautiful young wife. His jealousy, however, grew and grew as his capabilities shrank. Though before marriage she had held her legs together as tightly as a closed clamshell, he accused her of having been a wanton. Now, he said, she was trying to make him...