Chapters (2)
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- Some like them hot, some like them cold. Some like them when they're not too darn old Some like them fat, some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark, some like them light. Some like them in the park, late at night. Some like them fickle, some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you
Well any way I says I had met a whole lot more Maries then Charlottes in France and she says had I met any Florries and I said no and that was realy the name I had picked out for the kid. So she says well she didn't like the name herself but it was the only name I could pick out that she wouldn't be suspicious of it so the little gal is named after her mother Al and if she only grows up 1/2 as pretty as her old lady it won't make no differents if she has got a funny name.
Well Al have you noticed what direction the Dutchmens is makeing their drive in now? They started going the other way the 18 of July and it was 2 days ahead of that time that our regt. was moved over to the war and now they are running them ragged. Well Al I wished I was there to help but even if I was worth a dam to fight I couldn't very well leave home just now.
Your pal, JACK.
THE END.
Ring Lardner – A Biography
Ring Lardner (1885-1933), or Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, is an American writer and sports journalist. His literary works are mainly humorous short stories written on subjects related to sports and sportsmen. Although he originally thought that his productions would be just fading commentaries on baseball games and players, many of his works were immortalized to become classics of American humor. Some of them even witnessed huge success after being posthumously adopted to television and cinema.
Ring was born in Niles, Michigan, to Henry Lardner, a wealthy man who had nine children and who named his youngest son Ringgold after a relative. The son shortened his name to become simply Ring and gave it to his own son later, Ring Lardner, Jr., the renowned Hollywood screenwriter.
As a student, Ring Lardner started a degree in engineering and never finished it. In fact, he soon felt that he was not made for the sciences. Later, he received his first job as a columnist in the South Bend Times to later join the famous Chicago Tribune. By that time, he achieved considerable success, mainly among baseball fans who liked his quips and his satirical and funny commentaries. It was only in 1916 that Lardner decided to collect some of his works in a book that he entitled You Know Me Al. The publication was an astounding success and raised Lardner to important fame. The narrative takes the form of an epistolary novel in which the protagonist Jack Keefe, a baseball player, sends letters to his friend. Readers and reviewers appreciated Lardner’s exceptional style and sense of satire.