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My Four Weeks in France

Name: My Four Weeks in France
Author: Ring Lardner

by Ring Lardner

A sports columnist and humorist travels to France as a war correspondent during World War I and recounts his experiences on the assignment.

Opening

A few passages to enter the atmosphere.

I: Dodging Submarines to Cover the Biggest Game of All

Dodging Submarines to Cover the Biggest Game of All

Wednesday, July 18. A Lake Michigan Port.

I kept an appointment today with a gentleman from Somewhere in Connecticut.

“How,” said he, “would you like to go to France?”

I told him I’d like it very much, but that I was thirty-two years old, with a dependable wife and three unreliable children.

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My Four Weeks in France