Have you read “My first deer, and welcome to it”? It’s in They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They? Deals with the dilemma of a 14-year old, just got his license and tag, but no driver’s license and no one to ask to drive him. He has to ride his bike “twenty miles up the side of a mountain to go deer hunting.” Then he actually shoots a deer. Uh-oh.

Have you ever had to get the lights to work on a trailer? In another of my favorite stories McManus recounts the hours spent under a boat trailer the night before he planned to leave for a fishing trip, tracing wires, jiggling plugs, checking circuits, replacing bulbs, and they still don’t work. Can’t recall the name of the story, but it was in his book Kerplunk! which I must have lent out.

You may know that McManus has also written several humorous mystery books in which the hero is Sheriff Bo Tully of Blight County, Idaho. I recommend them. One of them is titled The Blight Way, published 2006.

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