Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!

Best-selling outdoor humorist McManus ( The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw) bags another in this collection of yarns featuring irascible woodsman Rancid Crabtree, "Phantom of the Woods" Retch Sweeney, boyhood pal Crazy Eddie, and others of McManus's acquaintance. Also meet hunting dog Strange, dog delinquent, whose prey of choice is year-old roadkill. Readers of McManus's humor column in Outdoor Life will enjoy his observations on the joys of pig-back riding, workshop puttering, and Sasquatch ducking. So will those who, like McManus's wife Bun, appreciate nature most from the window of a seven-story luxury hotel. Contents: Controlling My Life Strange Meets Matilda Jean Tough Guys Don't Bird A Good Deed Goes Wrong The Fishing Box Social Skills The Clown A Good Night's Sleep A Brief History of Giving (1942-89) Pouring My Own Teenagers From Hell Secret Places Puttering Search and - Uh - Rescue The Bust Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! Blood Sausage Crash Dive! My Abduction by Creatures From Space, for What It's Worth Phantom of the Woods The Piano Lesson Zumbo and the Misty Mountain Ghosts The Road Hunter Why Is It? The Late Great Fourth Camping In