The Old Man's Boy Grows Older

by Ruark, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780805029741
• ISBN10: 0805029745
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-15
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Summary

The heartwarming sequel to the best-selling The Old Man and the Boy is a moving, nostalgic tale that will transport the reader back to a time when going fishing was not about fish, but the stories told afterward.

Table of Contents

Foreword A Word from the Boy	1	(293)
All He Left Me Was the World	9	(6)
Nobility Is Wrecking the Country	15	(8)
Uncle Rob Had Humphrey Bogart Beat a Mile	23	(8)
The Old Man Paid My Passage	31	(22)
How to Make a Hoorah's Nest a Home	53	(8)
If You Don't Care Where You Are You Ain't Lost	61	(8)
Stories Grow Taller in the Fresh Air	69	(8)
Same Knife; Different Boy	77	(12)
You Got to Hurt to Be Happy	89	(12)
Hang Your Stocking in August	101	(8)
Good-bye, Cruel World	109	(12)
It Always Rains on Saturday	121	(8)
The Trouble with Dogs Is People	129	(10)
Cooties in the Knight Clothes	139	(6)
You Don't Have to Shoot to Go Hunting	145	(18)
Lions and Liars	163	(8)
Fishing Is a State of Mind	171	(18)
Voodoo in the Skillet	189	(8)
Dogs, Boys, and the Unspared Rod	197	(12)
Second Childhood Is More Fun than the First---I	209	(8)
Second Childhood Is More Fun than the First---II	217	(10)
Hold Perfection in Your Hand	227	(6)
To Seek a Bear and Find a Boy	233	(12)
Nobody's Too Old for a Physic	245	(8)
Only One Head to a Customer	253	(8)
Greedy Gut	261	(8)
Snakes Ain't Hostile in November	269	(6)
Stoicism Is Bad for Boys	275	(10)
The House Comes Home	285	(8)
Even His Runts Were Giants	293