Webmasters note: First some important information regarding the "care and
feeding" of outhouses! Not being flushable, you had to, from time to time,
knock down or level out the "hills" that would develop and stick wayyy up.
Then you would pour in lime to help with the odor problem. This next story
tells you what can happen if you let the "hills" get tooo high and little
ones are listening to the conversation!
When I was growing up we had a two-holer... One spring my mom did not get to
knock the hills down and put the lime on it before her brother-in-law came to
visit from the city. He was a city slicker for sure. When he came inside after
visiting the little house out back, he said to her, "Sue, you better knock
those hills down, I knocked my balls off out there....."
Well, my sister and I, not having any balls to play with, heard that and away
we went to find the balls. We looked all afternoon in that little house out
back and we never did find the balls. I think we were well into adulthood before
it really dawned on us what the problem was with the little hills in that house
out back. Oh, the fun of the good old days!