" The essence of women, the cartoon suggests, iscomprised of the features that are included in the drawing; those partsthat are excluded are unimport...ant. In a similar cartoon, a Baubo-likefigure (see my novel, Baubo) is presented as exemplifying the idealwoman. She consists of a pair of legs which end in a truncated torsowhich consists of breasts in front, under which is a vagina, andbuttocks in the rear. There is no back, stomach, arms, neck, or head.The point that these cartoons make. They don’t know how to talk to high class women. So, we start with a conversation and move on from there. Some men just want a tug or a poke and then get back to drinking and gambling. I tried to stay away from those.”“How do you propose that we handle the homestead?” I asked Opal Anne.“I guess we head for Fountain City the next time your brothers go in. We can all get our supplies. We’ll need to pack ours in, so a new mule or two might be better than a wagon. We can bring some gold down with. When, after Laura had turned the light out and rolled over to sleep with her back to me, I tried to approach her for a little sex. It was an unsuccessful attempt. She pushed me away saying that she was too tired. As usual I complained that it had been weeks and whined that "man cannot live on bread alone" which was my usual refrain when this happened.Rejected I rolled over to face the wall and until I finally drifted off into a troubled sleep I lay there imagining my pretty wife in bed, getting. My horse slows as she mounts the low rise before Chaster's wood and I bring her around to skirt the edge of the dark forest. I can see across the town from here to where my father's keep stands, tall and noble atop a rocky outcrop where the river bends.I slow my horse to a walk and turn her down a bridle-path into the forest. The air is still beneath the trees, and smells of deep earth. Slowly I ride further into the forest, drawing the air deep into my lungs, savouring the stillness of the.