We used the Sears’ Catalog to burn the underside of the outhouse seat. Neophytes think the catalog is for wiping but we used softer paper. Black widow spiders built up around the seat in warm weather and we set the catalog sheets on fire to burn around the seat before seating. Many a man died when a black widow bit him on the balls.
“”Black widow spiders built up around the seat in warm weather””
Sure glad I wasn’t aware of that many years ago. Being a female I didn’t have the problem you mentioned in the last sentence but I would have had to find someplace else to do my business if I’d known ANY kind of spiders were out there.
I would have gone to the barn or the henhouse - anywhere but there!