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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (1)
PREFACE. The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it convey…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (2)
Picture: Mermaid If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say: “Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singin…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (3)
And that oil oozed up and ruined the sunset; and as for the moonbeams, they positively reeked of paraffine. We tried to get away from it at…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (4)
“Ah! they’ll come in the afternoon, you’ll find,” we said to each other. “Oh, won’t those people get wet. What a lark!” At one o’clock, the…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (5)
The “sampler” that the eldest daughter did at school will be spoken of as “tapestry of the Victorian era,” and be almost priceless. The blu…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (6)
I pointed out to him that we were miles away from a pub.; and then he went on about the river, and what was the good of the river, and was…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (7)
“I never knew you played the banjo!” cried Harris and I, in one breath. “Not exactly,” replied George: “but it’s very easy, they tell me; a…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (8)
How he managed it I do not know, he could not explain himself; but by some mysterious process or other he succeeded, after ten minutes of s…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (9)
Picture: In the Thames It was bitterly cold. The wind cut like a knife. I thought I would not throw the water over myself after all. I woul…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (10)
At that moment an angel came by in the disguise of a small boy (and I cannot think of any more effective disguise an angel could have assum…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (11)
Our departure from Marlow I regard as one of our greatest successes. It was dignified and impressive, without being ostentatious. We had in…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (12)
I knew a young fellow once, who was studying to play the bagpipes, and you would be surprised at the amount of opposition he had to contend…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (13)
George said he little thought that afternoon that he should ever come to really like boating. Harris is more accustomed to sea rowing than…
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I am not a good fisherman myself. I devoted a considerable amount of attention to the subject at one time, and was getting on, as I thought…
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - (15)
First the current drives you on to the right bank, and then on to the left, then it takes you out into the middle, turns you round three ti…