the boy but I didn't know he had a problem. My wife now explain- ed to me how he had been caught several times stealing things from clothes lines. After trying to correct it for several years, they had given in and let him dress at home. She wouldn't beli- eve I'd just started and kept questioning me until she'd learned about my aunt.

She got off letters to both my aunt and her cousin and though I was permitted to wear her things she couldn't have real- lly ever been said to understand. She objected to my wearing a bra or trying to create the impression of breasts and, all in all, considered it sort of childish. There was some of the tease in her, however. After letters had passed back and forth for awhile, she bought three pair of bloomers which by that time of course weren't at all common.

It wasn't at all uncommon for service men to help their wives with house work. Nearly everyone used the self-service laundry and dishes were usually rushed through so they could get started with whatever was planned for the evening.

She was

Anyway, I had helped my wife with the laundry. left to hang it up while I went on to work. I'd have taken it down when I returned but it was dark and I didn't realize it was still out. In the morning the three pair of bloomers were miss- ing as were two other pair of panties. She thought I had taken them and wouldn't believe any different. She took me over her knee and spanked me. It was silly my letting her, being so much bigger than she was, but when she grabbed hold of my arm with such a strong firm hold I just melted. It wasn't until a neigh- bor had things missing from her line when I was with my wife and she knew I couldn't have done it that she believed me.

In some ways, I had really enjoyed her spanking me. I don't think she ever realized that, however, I was troubled that it would become apparent to folks outside that I had lost my place as head of the house. But, somehow, my wife seemed to separate this from the rest of our relations together. If we should be asked out, for example, she would never accept but would say they'd have to ask me.

My wife was much smaller through the shoulders than I, and shorter, so I couldn't wear her slips, dresses, or nightgowns.

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