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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
Copyright © 1987 by Patrick F. McManus
All rights reserved.
All stories in this book appeared previously as follows: In Outdoor Life: “Shooter”; “The Belcher” (originally titled “The Sharps”); “To Filet or Not to Filet”; “A Really Nice Blizzard”; “The Last Flight of Homer Pidgin”; “What’s in a Name, Moonbeam?”; “The Big Fix”; “A Boy and His (Ugh!) Dog”; “Throwing Stuff”; “Muldoon in Love” (originally titled “Show and Gawk”); “Letter to Santa” (originally titled “Dear Santa”); “Nude, with Other Wildlife” (originally titled “Gummy”); “Claw of the Sea-Puss” (originally titled “Mutiny on the Sea-Puss”); “The MFFFF”; “The Mountain”; Pigs”; “Not Long for This Whirl”; “Cry Wolf” (originally titled “The Bridge”); “Outdoor Burnout”; “Advanced Duck-Hunting Techniques” (originally titled “The No-Fail School of Duck Hunting”). In Outdoor Life Hunting Guns, 1985-86: “Gun-Trading” (originally titled “A Trader in Our Midst”). In Reader’s Digest: “Muldoon in Love.” In Field & Stream: “Angler’s Dictionary”; “Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs” (originally titled “Getting Hooked on Fly-Tying”); “The Cabin at Spooky Lake” (originally titled “A Strange Occurrence at Nowhere Lake”). In Field & Stream Hunting Annual 1981: “The Fine Art of Delay” (originally titled “Art of Delay”). In the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review: “Summer Reading” (originally titled “Books for the Beach”). In Chrysler-Plymouth Spectator: “Loud Screeching and Other Tips on Getting Lost.”
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First published in hardcover in 1987 by Henry Holt and Company
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eISBN 9781466809512
First eBook Edition : January 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McManus, Patrick F.
Rubber legs and white tail-hairs.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-0912-5
ISBN-10: 0-8050-0912-4
1. Title.
PN6162.M35 1987 814’.54 87-8494
First Owl Books Edition 1988
Patrick F. McManus, Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
