Ribald Classic: A Cat O' Nine Tales

July, 1973

Lo Latjut was an old man who proclaimed that since all women were tricky as cats, he would never take one to wife. Since his name means Unlucky Dog, perhaps this wariness was justified. But all his sour resolves vanished when he saw the beautiful Yaya. Surely, he thought, this innocent maiden could conceive no thought but fidelity to a lusty, though elderly, husband such as I!Accordingly, he married her. At first thereafter, it seemed that if Yaya had anything of a catlike nature, it was only in...