Larger	Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs Author: Patrick F. McManus
	Book Information Publisher: Henry Holt Co Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 8 ISBN-13: 9780805005448 - ISBN-10: 0805005447 Publication Date: 8/1987 Pages: 198 Book Reviews

"Afterwards, I felt bad for a while about Miss Deets, but Mom told me to stop fretting about it. She said the problem was Miss Deets just had been too delicate to teach third grade in our part of the country."

So begins "Muldoon in Love," the opening piece in this outrageously fresh collection by America's favorite humorist. You'll recognize at once that you're in the hands of a master, a storyteller unequaled since Mark Twain's short horses and tall cowboys were bedeviled by jumping frogs in "Roughing It" a hundred years ago.

As you can see, Americ's favorite outdoor humorist is in fine form. And this time his range - outdoor and in - is wider than ever. Along the way we encounter his old sidekicks including Retch Sweeney, Grogan, and Rancid Crabtree, the unforgettable and unforgivable woodsman.

We join Pat on the hunt for the elusive white tail-hairs -surefire trout killers obtainable only from a rogue calf as any self-respecting fly fisherman knows; a few summer-reading titles are even suggested to keep you awake (remember, thinking and summer reading don't mix). After the hunt we are provided with tips from an expert outdoorsman on getting lost almost anywhere.

Meanwhile, bace to Miss Deets, whose severnth-grade teaching partner, Mr. Craw, was notable for wearing the same suit to Delmore Blight Grade School every day for thirty years. Some say the suit - obviously a creature of habit - came to school even when Mr. Craw was sick, but then only Skip Moseby seemed to notice that Craw wasn't inside. According to Pat McManus, "Skip said the suit did a fair job of explaining the dagling participle, which turned out to be some kind of South American lizard . . . "

Do you really want me to say more?