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Date: | Thu, 21 May 1998 21:04:59 -0400 |
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Regarding the long walk for modest ladies....
There's a tiny book (29 pages) called THE SPECIALIST by Charles Sale
(Putnam & Co.), which is the distilled wisdom an Englishman who built
privies. This book was first published in England in 1930 and by 1949
had sold 271,000 copies. (Putnam's edition of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN
FRONT had sold 330,000 by that time.)
Among the pearls (pp.14-15): "'Have her [the path] go past the
wood-pile.... Take a woman, fer instance -- out she goes. On the way
back she'll gather five sticks of wood.... Take a timid woman, if she
sees any men folks around, she's too bashful to go direct out, so she'll
go to the wood-pile, pick up the wood, go back to the house and watch
her chance. The average timid woman... I've knowed to make as many as
ten trips to the wood-pile before she goes in.... On a good day you'll
have your wood box filled by noon, and right there is a savin' of
time.'"
Taft
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