Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner was an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing. Wikipedia
“Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly.
Shut up he explained.”
The Young Immigrunts (1920), Chapter 10, "N.Y. to Grenitch 500.0" https://books.google.com/books?id=9EdcsTyTQ7YC&lpg=PA265&dq=%22The%20Young%20Immigrunts.%22&g=PA278#v=snippet&q=shut%20up%20he%20explained&f=false
Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=U_xaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+good+many+young+writers+make+the+mistake+of+enclosing+a+stamped+self-addressed+envelope+big+enough+for+the+manuscript+to+come+back+in+This+is+too+much+of+a+temptation+to+the+editor%22&pg=PAx#v=onepage to How to Write Short Stories (1924)
