Jan 3, 2010
Licht, clerk of the court of Huisum, a village near Utrecht in The Netherlands, appeared in the courtroom one morning to prepare for the day’s proceedings. He discovered Adam, the village judge, in a generally disreputable state, nursing a badly lacerated face and an injured leg. When he asked the judge how he came to be in such a condition, he received a highly questionable story about an altercation with a clothesline and a goat. Licht, sensing that there had been some philandering involved, hinted as much to Adam, but the judge naturally denied the clerk’s...
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