Three Men In a Boat - (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Three invalids.Sufferings of George and Harris.A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies.Useful prescriptions.Cure for liver complaint in children.We agree that we are overworked, and need rest.A week on the rolling deep?George suggests the River.Montmorency lodges an objection.Original motion carried by majority of three to one.There were four of usGeorge, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we werebad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it.

Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing.

With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular,...