“Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly.
Shut up he explained.”

—  Ring Lardner

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

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Sportswriter, short story writer 1885–1933

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