The Boy Grew Older
THIS autobiography started out to follow the style of Edward Bok and Henry (Peaches) Adams and refer to the hero in the third person, but the idea has been abandoned because in my case it would be confusing on account of two of my interminable brothers also being named Ring (inspiring a Niles wag, Charles Quimby, to call our family the Three Ring Circus) and if I were to write that Ring did this or Ring said that, the reader would not know whether I meant myself or one of the other boys unless in each instance I gave the full designation, a practice that would eat up too much space. For my oldest brother was christened Ring Once For Ice Water; another one, Ring Twice For Towels, and I, Ring Three Times For Good Luck. So from now on the author will be spoken of as I, provided it ain't too hard to locate that unaccustomed key on my typewriter.
As all we boys began being born one after
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Publication information:
Book title: The Story of a Wonder Man:Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner.
Contributors: Margaret Freeman - Illustrator, Ring Lardner - Author.
Publisher: Scribner.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1927.
Page number: 8.
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