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Three Men In A Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
SUPPER
After lunch, we moved on to Wargrave and Shiplake, and then to Sonning.
We got out of the boat there, and we walked about for an hour or more. It was
too late then to go on past Reading. So we decided to go back to one of the
Shiplake islands. We would spend the night there.
When we had tied the boat up by one of the islands, it was still early. George
said it would be a good idea to have a really excellent supper. He said we could
use all kinds of things, and all the bits of food we had left. We could make it
really interesting, and we could put everything into one big pan together. George
said he would show us how to do it.
We liked this idea, so George collected wood to make a fire. Harris and I
started to prepare the potatoes. This became a very big job. We began quite
happily. However, by the time we had finished our first potato, we were feeling
very miserable. There was almost no potato left. George came and looked at it.
‘Oh, that’s no good. You’ve done it wrong! Do it like this!’ he said.
We worked very hard for twenty-five minutes. At the end of that time we had
done four potatoes. We refused to continue.
George said it was stupid to have only four potatoes, so we washed about six
more. Then we put them in the pan without doing anything else to them. We
also put in some carrots and other vegetables. But George looked at it, and he
said there was not enough. So then we got out both the food baskets. We took
out all the bits of things that were left, and we put them, too. In fact, we put in
everything we could find. I remember that Montmorency watched all this, and
he looked very thoughtful. Then he walked away. He came back a few minutes
later with a dead rat in his mouth. He wanted to give it to us for the meal. We
did not know if he really wanted to put it in the pan, or if he wanted to tell us
what he thought about the meal. Harris said he thought it would be all right to
put the rat in. However, George did not want to try anything new.
It was a very good meal. It was different from other meals. The potatoes were
a bit hard, but we had good teeth, so it did not really matter.