My four weeks in France

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MY FOUR WEEKS IN FRANCE
By RING W. LARDNER AUTHOR OF Gullible’s Travels, Etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY WALLACE MORGAN
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1918 The Bobbs-Merrill Company
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
I kept an appointment to-day 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.