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UNIT 9. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (excerpt)
UNIT 10
Jerom K. Jerom,
THREE MAN IN A BOAT
Chapter II (excerpt)
We pulled out the maps, and discussed plans.
We arranged to start on the following Saturday from
Kingston. Harris and I would go down in the morning,
and take the boat up to Chertsey, and George, who would
not be able to get away from the City till the afternoon
(George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day,
except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him
outside at two), would meet us there. Should we “camp
out” or sleep at inns?
George and I were for camping out. We said it would
be so wild and free, so patriarchal like.
We run our little boat into some quiet nook, and the
tent is pitched, and the frugal supper cooked and eaten.
Then the big pipes are filled and lighted, and the pleasant
chat goes round in musical undertone; while, in the paus
es of our talk, the river, playing round the boat, prattles
strange old tales and secrets, sings low the old child’s song
that it has sung so many thousand years – will sing so
many thousand years to come, before its voice grows harsh
and old – a song that we, who have learnt to love its changing
face, who have so often nestled on its yielding bosom, think,
somehow, we understand, though we could not tell you in
mere words the story that we listen to.
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