Authors: Patrick F. McManus

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BOOKS BY PATRICK F. MCMANUS

Kid Camping from Aaaaiii! to Zip

A Fine and Pleasant Misery

They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?

Never Sniff a Gift Fish

The Grasshopper Trap

Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs

The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw

Whatchagot Stew

(with Patricia “The Troll” McManus Gass)

Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!

The Good Samaritan Strikes Again

How I Got This Way

All stories in this book appeared previously as follows: In
Outdoor Life:
“The Skunk Ladder”; “How to Go
Splat
!” (originally titled “Into Each Life a Little Fall Must Reign”); “The Human Fuel Pump”; “'Twas a Dark and Dreary Night”; “Trailer Trials”; “The Grasshopper Trap”; “Get Lost!”; “Metamorphosis and Other Outdoor Phenomena Wives Don't Understand” (originally titled “Metamorphosis and Other Outdoor Phenomena”); “The Swamp”; “A Hunker Is Not a Squat”; “Why Wives on Christmas Mourn” (originally titled “I Heard the Wives on Christmas Mourn”); “The Hunting Lesson”;
“Nincompoopery
and Other Group Terms” (originally titled “Off On a Lark”); “Character Flaws” (originally titled “Flaws”); “Mean Tents”; “Crick Ritual”; “Hunting Camp Etiquette”; “Stone Soup” (originally titled “The Wager”); “Sweet Sweet Sixteen”; “Down and Way Out in Brazil”; “Strange Encounters of the Bird Kind”; “The Outing”; “I, the Hunted.” In
Gutmann Knife Annual:
“First Knife” (originally titled “That First Knife”). In
Field & Stream Hunting Annual:
“The Case of the Missed Deer.” In
Hunting Guns:
“Gunrunning” (originally titled “How to Buy a Gun â¦ Without Your Wife Finding Out”). In
Field & Stream:
“Bad Company”; “Letters from Camp”; “Never Cry Snake!” (originally titled “Don't Never Cry Wuff”).