The stone of chastity

the long version

[From the back cover] What is any woman's MOST PRIVATE SECRET? What happens when the whole town FINDS OUT? Someone uncovered an old legend that any girl who slips and falls on a certain stone in a nearby stream has, well, already slipped. The results are havoc and hilarious as one by one the local boys maneuver the girls down to the bank and start them wading across... > An amiable bit of nonsense, as rowdy > as it is delightful. - *The New Yorker* > One of my top picks for a rainy day > re-read, or a bad cold re-read, or > just a bad day re-read, this is the > story of a professor who thinks he's > discovered an ancient stone in a > village stream that's possessed of > special powers—no impure woman can > step on the stone without falling into > the water. Outraged sensibilities and > outrageous antics result. - Scott at *FURROWED MIDDLEBROW*