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To: Grainne who wrote (43500)	7/3/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

OK, thanks for the info. I have never heard of this before. All I can think about is the first few chapters in Moby Dick, where Ishmael shares a bed with Queequeg (sp?). I don't think anyone would think that was a sexual relationship. More like making do when one is poor. But I don't know the particulars.

To: Grainne who wrote (43500)	7/4/1999 3:55:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

You are correct about the bed sharing and the reason for it. Entire families shared a single bed (actually a double bed). Travelers were expected to share a room or beds with strangers. Thus the traveling salesmen stories -- or the traveling Cambridge clerks stories -- as in the Reeve's tale. It has always been a standing joke that people forced by circumstances to share a bed often ended up engaged in sexual activity. Strange bedfellows indeed. I remember Judge Powell of Georgia recommending a classmate for a job at Columbia university. He wrote: "he was a badfellow at Mercer." He later admitted that he meant "bed fellow."