(Originally published 2012, Paperback 221 pages)
Mr. Ford worked as a Maine game warden in Waldo County from 1970 through 1990.
The county is known for being abundant with deer and poor people who know how to
stretch a dollar as well as, apparently, break fish-and-games laws. Some do it
out of necessity, others believe they're simply above the law and some sure do
seem to be mentally a few quarts short of a peck. The short stories are written
in a folksy manner where harsh profanity is avoided by using maledicta symbols.
Mr. Ford's short adventures entail such topics as illegal trapping, smelt
poachers, multiple night-hunter adventures, an episode where they are chasing
after to two deadly escaped prisoners, flying with a hotdog pilot, raising
numerous orphaned animals, drug traffickers and one tender, sad story about a
fox.
The 35 short pieces are an enjoyable, quick read that shows the more rustic, less-glamorous-side of Maine and its unsophisticated citizens. Many of the people who inhabit the stories in this book come across as knowledgable about nature and getting by on meager means but are emotionally children in adult bodies. The good-natured collection is not written in chronological order. Also, if you have an average intelligence, you'll unlikely have to worry about hauling out the dictionary. It is, however, a nice book for a leisure read about a part of Maine's character that gets scant attention, but it isn't up to the level of James Herriot's "All Creatures Great And Small" writing.
The 35 short pieces are an enjoyable, quick read that shows the more rustic, less-glamorous-side of Maine and its unsophisticated citizens. Many of the people who inhabit the stories in this book come across as knowledgable about nature and getting by on meager means but are emotionally children in adult bodies. The good-natured collection is not written in chronological order. Also, if you have an average intelligence, you'll unlikely have to worry about hauling out the dictionary. It is, however, a nice book for a leisure read about a part of Maine's character that gets scant attention, but it isn't up to the level of James Herriot's "All Creatures Great And Small" writing.
(Meyers - A few years ago, I
started writing, under the pseudonym Franklin the Mouse, short
reviews at Amazon's web site. This is my most recent review #338)
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