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Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Prologue: The Way It Was -- I Gotta Go! -- All Aboard -- Free Willy -- Modern-Day Robin Hood -- What's in a Name? -- Welcome to My World -- Smell the Hands -- For Better or Worse -- Two Times a Loser -- Pretty Damn Sharp, Wasn't He, John? -- The Lead-Pipe Hat Attack -- "Which One of You Damn Kids . . ." -- Halloween and the Unity Square Crapper -- The Flying Flashlight -- Taking the Plunge -- Lights Out -- Mama, Mama, They've Had Babies! -- Ralph's Biggest Buck -- Confronting a Ghost -- The Kenduskeag River Travesty -- Professional Courtesy, My Foot! -- Aided by Informants -- Being Mr. Nice Guy -- A Little Courtroom Humor -- The Rolling Parachute -- The Secret -- Caught in a Lie -- Something Fishy Here -- Harvesting the Weed -- The Snowmobile and the Hood -- The Day President Reagan Was Shot -- Surprise, Surprise -- Memorial Day Memories -- Where Was Kate When I Needed Her? -- Jimmy and the Ice Chisel -- A Better Use of the Finger -- Just Another Day (Walter's Story) -- Heeeere's Johnny! -- A Night Out with Blinky -- Popcorn, Moxie, and a Wet Hat -- Epilogue: The Ultimate Sacrifice -- About the Author.

Retired Maine Game Warden John Ford has seen it all. He's been shot at by desperate prison escapees, been outwitted by wily trappers, and rescued scores of animals. As a tenacious and successful warden, he was always willing to spend the time needed to nab violators of the state's fish and game laws. At the same time, though, he wasn't a cold, heartless, go-by-the-book enforcer; he usually had a good quip ready when he slipped the handcuffs on a violator, and he wasn't above accepting a lesson learned as sufficient penalty for breaking the law. Ford is also a very gifted storyteller, and he writes of his adventures in Suddenly, the Cider Didn't Taste So Good, a collection of true tales, both humorous and serious, from the trenches of law enforcement, and also includes heartwarming accounts of his rescue of hurt or abandoned animals

"Lawyers in Scotland in the later sixteenth century took a disproportionate interest in the law governing maritime commerce. Some essays in this collection consider their handling of the subject in treatises they wrote. Other essays, however, show that disputes relating to maritime trade were handled in a different way in the courts of the towns at which ships arrived. Further essays examine the relationship between these contrasting perspectives. Although the essays focus on the law governing maritime commerce in Scotland, they also contribute to a wider debate about the nature of maritime law in early-modern Europe"--