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Authors: Patrick F. McManus
BOOKS BY PATRICK F. MCMANUS
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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 © 1989 by Patrick F. McManus
All rights reserved.
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 ⦠Without Your Wife Finding Out”). In
Field & Stream:
“Bad Company”; “Letters from Camp”; “Never Cry Snake!” (originally titled “Don't Never Cry Wuff”).
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 ⦠Without Your Wife Finding Out”). In
Field & Stream:
“Bad Company”; “Letters from Camp”; “Never Cry Snake!” (originally titled “Don't Never Cry Wuff”).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McManus, Patrick F.
The grasshopper trap.
McManus, Patrick F.
The grasshopper trap.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-0111-2
ISBN-10: 0-8050-0111-5
1. Outdoor life. 2. Hunting. 3. Fishing. I. Title.
[GV191.6.M325 1986a] 796.5 86-12020
ISBN-10: 0-8050-0111-5
1. Outdoor life. 2. Hunting. 3. Fishing. I. Title.
[GV191.6.M325 1986a] 796.5 86-12020
First Owl Books Edition 1986
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