Ribald Classic: Who's Who?

November, 1981

In a certain city of Arabia, there once dwelt a fair, well-favored woman married to a fuller, a worker with cloth. This fuller was surly, stupid and bad-tempered. He treated his wife contemptuously and, though he did not know it, he was repaid in full, for, when he had left for his workshop, a handsome trooper would enter his house, his bed and his wife for an hour or so in the morning. But they grew tired of the secrecy.One day, the trooper said, "I have resolved to rent the vacant house t...