Ribald Classic: The Tale Of The Two Ganders

August, 1974

Once there was a wife of Cairo who talked a good deal about her genteel background, her willing obedience to her husband and her devotion to religion. Truth to tell, nobody would have noticed these virtues if she hadn't pointed them out. In her house she happened to have a pair of plump ganders, always running about underfoot. She also had a fat lover. Whenever he came to call--in her husband's absence--he would lick his lips at the sight of the birds.One day, he said to her, "I can't get t...