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I SEE that Mr. Wells, in his interesting discourse on “The Discovery of the Future,” mentions “a sort of bed of King Og, to which all expressions must be lopped or stretched.” We are told in Numbers that King Og had an iron bedstead, which was 9 cubits long and 4 cubits broad. But I cannot find that he put his bedstead to the use suggested by Mr. Wells. Is it possible that this gentlemen's memory is at fault, and that he is confusing King Og with the ancient Greek robber Procrustes, who was accustomed to torture his captives by stretching them if they were too short for his bed, and by lopping off portions of their legs if they were too long to fit the bed?
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S., T. King Og's Bed. Nature 65, 366 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065366e0
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