Three Men in a Boat / Three Men on the Bummel

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— 128 — l<strong>in</strong>ger<strong>in</strong>gly we slowly drew our little boat away from its deep peace. We pulled up <strong>in</strong> the backwater, just below Cookham, and had tea; and, when we were through the lock, it was even<strong>in</strong>g. A stiffish breeze had sprung up — <strong>in</strong> our favour, for a wonder; for, as a rule on the river, the w<strong>in</strong>d is always dead aga<strong>in</strong>st you whatever way you go. It is aga<strong>in</strong>st you <strong>in</strong> the morn<strong>in</strong>g, when you start for a day’s trip, and you pull a long distance, th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g how easy it will be to come back with the sail. Then, after tea, the w<strong>in</strong>d veers round, and you have to pull hard <strong>in</strong> its teeth all the way home. When you forget to take the sail at all, then the w<strong>in</strong>d is consistently <strong>in</strong> your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. This even<strong>in</strong>g, however, they had evidently made a mistake, and had put the w<strong>in</strong>d round at our back <strong>in</strong>stead of <strong>in</strong> our face. We kept very quiet about it, and got the sail up quickly before they found it out, and then we spread ourselves about the boat <strong>in</strong> thoughtful attitudes, and the sail bellied out, and stra<strong>in</strong>ed, and grumbled at the mast, and the boat flew. I steered. There is no more thrill<strong>in</strong>g sensation I know of than sail<strong>in</strong>g. It comes as near to fly<strong>in</strong>g as man has got to yet — except <strong>in</strong> dreams. The w<strong>in</strong>gs of the rush<strong>in</strong>g w<strong>in</strong>d seem to be bear<strong>in</strong>g you onward, you know not where. You are no longer the slow, plodd<strong>in</strong>g, puny th<strong>in</strong>g of clay, creep<strong>in</strong>g tortuously upon the ground; you are a part of Nature! Your heart is throbb<strong>in</strong>g aga<strong>in</strong>st hers! Her glorious arms are round you, rais<strong>in</strong>g you up aga<strong>in</strong>st her heart! Your spirit is at one with hers; your limbs grow light! The voices of the air are s<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g to you. The earth seems far away and little; and the clouds, so close above your head, are brothers, and you stretch your arms to them. We had the river to ourselves, except that, far <strong>in</strong> the distance, we could see a fish<strong>in</strong>g-punt, moored <strong>in</strong> mid-stream, on which
— 129 — three fishermen sat; and we skimmed over the water, and passed the wooded banks, and no one spoke. I was steer<strong>in</strong>g. As we drew nearer, we could see that the three men fish<strong>in</strong>g seemed old and solemn-look<strong>in</strong>g men. They sat on three chairs <strong>in</strong> the punt, and watched <strong>in</strong>tently their l<strong>in</strong>es. And the red sunset threw a mystic light upon the waters, and t<strong>in</strong>ged with fire the tower<strong>in</strong>g woods, and made a golden glory of the piled-up clouds. It was an hour of deep enchantment, of ecstatic hope and long<strong>in</strong>g. The little sail stood out aga<strong>in</strong>st the purple sky, the gloam<strong>in</strong>g lay around us, wrapp<strong>in</strong>g the world <strong>in</strong> ra<strong>in</strong>bow shadows; and, beh<strong>in</strong>d us, crept the night. We seemed like knights of some old legend, sail<strong>in</strong>g across some mystic lake <strong>in</strong>to the unknown realm of twilight, unto the great land of the sunset. We did not go <strong>in</strong>to the realm of twilight; we went slap <strong>in</strong>to that punt, where those three old men were fish<strong>in</strong>g. We did not know what had happened at first, because the sail shut out the view, but from the nature of the language that rose up upon the even<strong>in</strong>g air, we gathered that we had come <strong>in</strong>to the neighbourhood of human be<strong>in</strong>gs, and that they were vexed and discontented. Harris let the sail down, and then we saw what had happened. We had knocked those three old gentlemen off their chairs <strong>in</strong>to a general heap at the bottom of the boat, and they were now slowly and pa<strong>in</strong>fully sort<strong>in</strong>g themselves out from each other, and pick<strong>in</strong>g fish off themselves; and as they worked, they cursed us — not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away <strong>in</strong>to the distant future, and <strong>in</strong>cluded all our relations, and covered everyth<strong>in</strong>g connected with us — good, substantial curses. Harris told them they ought to be grateful for a little excitement, sitt<strong>in</strong>g there fish<strong>in</strong>g all day, and he also said that he was shocked and grieved to hear men their age give way to temper so.
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Jerome K. Jerome Three</str
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PUBLISHER’S ADVERTISEMENT. IT may
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CHAPTER I. Three I
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— 19 — CHAPTER II. Plans discus
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— 27 — And then he would lift u
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— 35 — At the end of that trip
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— 41 — “Ain
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— 43 — “Stand still, can’t
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— 45 — CHAPTER V. Mrs. P. arous
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— 47 — fatalities, and the weat
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— 51 — that Biggs’s boy (for
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— 53 — should all know when we
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— 59 — only the dug-up commonpl
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— 61 — Harris, however, said he
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— 63 — on until, at last, they
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— 65 — CHAPTER VII. The river <
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— 69 — down on your — I mean
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— 179 — “Ah!” said the old
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— 181 — He said that br
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— 183 — common practice up the
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— 185 — There was a good deal o
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— 189 — CHAPTER XIX. Oxford.
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— 191 — not to be afraid, but t
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— 193 — George took the fun mor
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— 195 — pression, unable to bea
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— 202 — George would make. A ba
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— 206 — to agree with him, —
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— 208 — with Ethelbertha by my
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— 214 — CHAPTER II A delicate b
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— 216 — I wonder sometimes whet
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— 218 — Do you thin</st
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— 224 — In this way he sped mer
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— 240 — CHAPTER IV Why Harris c
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— 244 — Harris’s new wheel. E
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— 252 — Taking
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— 256 — CHAPTER V A necessary d
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— 260 — We gave them hi
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— 264 — route between London an
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— 266 — the camera for us, have
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— 268 — “Because the sun coul
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— 296 — CHAPTER VIII Mr. and Mi
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— 310 — CHAPTER IX Harris break
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— 312 — “Whose is it?” he a
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— 326 — CHAPTER X Baden from th
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— 338 — CHAPTER XI Black Forest
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— 376 — “It will be i
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— 380 — CHAPTER XIV Which is se
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— 384 — who will go anywhere, a
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— 386 — Possibly, he will have
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— 388 — “Why not?” she aske
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