Three men on the bummel

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Chapter I (1)
Three men need change—Anecdote showing evil result of deception—Moral cowardice of George—Harris has ideas—Yarn of the Ancient Mariner and…
Chapter I (2)
“In the course of this week,” I went on, “we have had wind from the north, from the south, from the east, from the west—with variations. If…
Chapter II (1)
A delicate business—What Ethelbertha might have said—What she did say—What Mrs. Harris said—What we told George—We will start on Wednesday—…
Chapter II (2)
While he was deliberating a man passed, sitting sideways on a horse. Harris stopped him, and explained to him that he had lost his wife. Th…
Chapter III (1)
Harris’s one fault—Harris and the Angel—A patent bicycle lamp—The ideal saddle—The “Overhauler”—His eagle eye—His method—His cheery confide…
Chapter III (2)
“The tandem,” I said, “is well.” He said: “You don’t think it wants overhauling?” I replied: “Age and experience have taught me that there…
Chapter IV (1)
Why Harris considers alarm clocks unnecessary in a family—Social instinct of the young—A child’s thoughts about the morning—The sleepless w…
Chapter IV (2)
Here somebody would explain, “What’s this?” and hand him from somewhere a paper neatly folded. “I do wish people would leave my things alon…
Chapter V (1)
A necessary digression—Introduced by story containing moral—One of the charms of this book—The Journal that did not command success—Its boa…
Chapter V (2)
Lastly, in this book there will be no scenery. This is not laziness on my part; it is self-control. Nothing is easier to write than scenery…
Chapter VI (1)
Why we went to Hanover—Something they do better abroad—The art of polite foreign conversation, as taught in English schools—A true history,…
Chapter VI (2)
At first I fell to wondering whether a stretcher or a clothes basket would be the more useful for the conveyance of Harris’s remains back t…
Chapter VII
George wonders—German love of order—“The Band of the Schwarzwald Blackbirds will perform at seven”—The china dog—Its superiority over all o…
Chapter VIII (1)
Mr. and Miss Jones, of Manchester—The benefits of cocoa—A hint to the Peace Society—The window as a mediaeval argument—The favourite Christ…
Chapter VIII (2)
Harris told a sad history, as we walked, about a man he once knew, who is now in a home for harmless imbeciles. He said he recalled the sto…
Chapter IX (1)
Harris breaks the law—The helpful man: The dangers that beset him—George sets forth upon a career of crime—Those to whom Germany would come…
Chapter IX (2)
But, anyhow, they moved off; maybe the egg annoyed them. I had noticed when I picked it up that it did not look a good egg; and I went back…
Chapter X
Baden from the visitor’s point of view—Beauty of the early morning, as viewed from the preceding afternoon—Distance, as measured by the com…
Chapter XI (1)
Black Forest House: and the sociability therein—Its perfume—George positively declines to remain in bed after four o’clock in the morning—T…
Chapter XI (2)
Another peculiarity of the German coachman is that he never attempts to pull in or to pull up. He regulates his rate of speed, not by the p…
Chapter XII (1)
We are grieved at the earthly instincts of the German—A superb view, but no restaurant—Continental opinion of the Englishman—That he does n…
Chapter XII (2)
“Of course not,” I answered. “It was quite illegal. The only excuse offered by his counsel was that he was of a highly excitable dispositio…
Chapter XIII (1)
An examination into the character and behaviour of the German student—The German Mensur—Uses and abuses of use—Views of an impressionist—Th…
Chapter XIII (2)
Some time in the small hours, the chairman suggested that to make things more comfortable for those still upright, all the gentlemen unable…
Chapter XIV (1)
Which is serious: as becomes a parting chapter—The German from the Anglo-Saxon’s point of view—Providence in buttons and a helmet—Paradise…
Chapter XIV (2)
Brilliantly educated she always has been. At eighteen she speaks two or three languages, and has forgotten more than the average Englishwom…