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  YOU KNOW ME AL

  RING W. LARDNER




  YOU KNOW ME
  AL

  _A Busher's Letters_

  BY

  RING W. LARDNER

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK
  GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY




  Copyright, 1916,
  BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY


  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                     PAGE

    I A BUSHER'S LETTERS HOME                   9

   II THE BUSHER COMES BACK                    45

  III THE BUSHER'S HONEYMOON                   83

   IV A NEW BUSHER BREAKS IN                  122

    V THE BUSHER'S KID                        166

   VI THE BUSHER BEATS IT HENCE               208




YOU KNOW ME AL




YOU KNOW ME AL




CHAPTER I

A BUSHER'S LETTERS HOME


  _Terre Haute, Indiana, September 6._

FRIEND AL: Well, Al old pal I suppose you seen in the paper where I
been sold to the White Sox. Believe me Al it comes as a surprise to
me and I bet it did to all you good old pals down home. You could of
knocked me over with a feather when the old man come up to me and says
Jack I've sold you to the Chicago Americans.

I didn't have no idea that anything like that was coming off. For five
minutes I was just dum and couldn't say a word.

He says We aren't getting what you are worth but I want you to go up to
that big league and show those birds that there is a Central League
on