THE WAY OF A VIRGIN.
argued the father to himself; and he spake his son, saying:
"Since thy yard is become so great that it passeth beyond thy backside, there is no need for thee to marry. Live single, rest at home, and futter thyself."
Thus the matter ended.[1]
- ↑ Stories of sexual ignorance, amounting in the case of men to veritable imbecility, are numerous in Kruptadia. In Vol. X., Stories of Picardy, we have the tale of a young girl who had been seduced, but had married a half-witted youth, whom she was forced to instruct in the art of love. When they were in bed together, "she showed him how children are made—a business entirely unknown to him. After the explanations had been given in theory, the husband mounted upon his wife, desiring to show that he had learned his lesson well; but the young wife cried out in surprise: "Tis too high! 'Tis too high!' An instant later she was forced to say: "Tis too low! 'Tis too low!' Several other of his efforts having failed, she told her husband that he did but knock at the side of the door. Whereat the latter, aweary of 'Too high' and 'Too low,' exclaimed: 'Since thou knowest the spot so well, put it there thyself!'"
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