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...your issue of TIME, May 25, I notice on p. 64, in your section devoted to Books, you give a short review of Behind Moroccan Walls by Henriette Celarié. Mme Celarié states that this is a collection of true stories and sketches and forthwith you narrate the incident about the woman who had succeeded in cuckolding her husband, returns too late one night, to find him awake, angry, suspicious, herself locked out. Pretending despair, she says she will drown herself in the well if he does not open the door; throws a big stone down the well...
...will refer to the Decameron of Boccaccio, Seventh Day, Fourth Story, you shall find this tale narrated exactly as above; the characters being Tofano and his wife Madam Ghita which makes me think that if this story, related to Mme Celarié is true, then this is a case where history repeated itself, almost verbatim...
...Someone must have been kidding Authoress Celarié if she tells this as a true story, else some Marocaine, a devotee of Boccaccio, called on her knowledge of his works to pull herself out of a nasty...
Authoress Celarié introduces the interlude by asking Marocaine Batoul "How can a woman among you deceive her husband . . . [when] the houses are so shut in, the women so well guarded?" Batoul replies with several personal anecdotes and a story of which she is not sure "whether it is true. It is a very old one." When Mme Celarié begs for another "story," Batoul complies with the stone-in-the-well tale. Mme Celarié's equivocal comment on these narratives: "These old stories, recalling those gusty ones of our ancestors in the Middle Ages, seldom fail...
Other alert Readers who recognized the source of Mme Celarié's story were: James W. Gaynor, Albany, N. Y.; Howard Hildebrand, Lisbon, Ohio; Lee Keidel, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; James L. Stern, Philadelphia; Nelson H. Brooks, New Haven, Conn.; Cyril J. Bath, Cleveland; Edward H. Sapt Jr., Wenonah, N. J.; Gerald V. Strang, Berkeley, Calif.; David H. Shearer, Rochester, N. Y.; Q. L. Quinlivan, Arlington, N. J.; W. A. Gardner, Evanston, 111., Lewis C. Hawkins, Fair Haven...
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