If You Like 3 Holers,

this is the book for you,

in 1929, inspired by a carpenter named 'Lem Putt' from his hometown of Urbana, Charles Sale wrote The Specialist, a play about an outhouse builder, it is not so much a book, as a leaflet put in a hard cover, why? apparently because at the time copyright infringement was widespread in Vaudeville, and by publishing the piece as a book this was a way to avoid it, a 15 minute read, but full of homespun philosophy, why would you put a wood pile on the way to the outhouse? obvious really, but you will have to read the book to find out! as it happens I was given this book as a 16th birthday present way back in 1966, I enjoyed reading it again as much as I did the first time round.