Chapters (2)
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- Some like them hot, some like them cold.Some like them when they're not too darn oldSome 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 I finely happened to think of Sister Marie and I asked where she was at and Florrie says she went back to Texas so I says tough luck and Florrie says I needn't get so gay the 1st. evening home and she says "Any way we have still got a Marie in the house as that is what I call the baby." So I says "Well you can think of her that way but her name ain't going to be that as I don't like the name." So she says what name did I like and I pretended like I was thinking a wile and finely I says what is the matter with Charlotte. Well Al you will half to hand it to the women for detectives as I hadn't no sooner said the name when she says "Oh no you can't come home and name my baby after none of your French nurses." And I hadn't told her nothing about a nurse.
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.