Any of you guys ever clean up a chicken that had got trapped in an outhouse? I have and it "ain't" fun. Shelby, I know you will remember back in the thirties how the WPA placed outhouses at periodic intervals alongside the highway. They were a favorite target for the halloween pranksters. They didn't allow the one at the mouth of Coon Branch at Matheny to remain upright even that long. It probably was turned over three or four times a year. The officials finally gave up and abandoned the whole idea. They couldn't pin that mischief on me as I was too young. STAN On Oct 11, 2007, at 6:44 AM, Richard Stewart wrote: > Hello - I am enjoying your stories too. I was born in 1944 and > remember having no running water at the homeplace and the big tin > bathtub filled with water heated on a coal stove. Also, the house was > heated with coal that had to be carried in those wide mouth buckets. > The outhouse was my main memory of those days. One time a long > blacksnake fell at Grama Mullin's feet when she went to the privy. I > have always been very afraid of snakes. I started going off into the > woods to do my "business". Mom and my uncle Troy caught me and forced > me to go to the outhouse while they stood guard. I got over my fear > of the outhouse. Cousin Rick > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVLOGAN- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message