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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome, Illustrated by A. Frederics This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) Author: Jerome K. Jerome Release Date: October 19, 2010 [eBook #308] First Posted: August 28, 1995 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THREE MEN IN A BOAT*** Transcribed from the 1889 J. W. Arrowsmith edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org Second proof by Margaret Price. THREE MEN IN A BOAT (_TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG_). * * * * * BY JEROME K. JEROME AUTHOR OF "IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW," "STAGE LAND," ETC. Illustrations by A. Frederics. [Picture: Decorative graphic] BRISTOL J. W. ARROWSMITH, 11 QUAY STREET LONDON SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO. LIMITED * * * * * 1889 _All rights reserved_ PREFACE. _The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style_, _or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys_, _as in its simple truthfulness_. _Its pages form the record of events that really happened_. _All that has been done is to colour them_; _and_, _for this_, _no extra charge has been made_. _George and Harris and Montmorency are not poetic ideals_, _but things of flesh and blood--especially George_, _who weighs about twelve stone_. _Other works may excel this in dept of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size_; _but_, _for hopeless and incurable veracity_, _nothing yet discovered can surpass it_. _This_, _more than all its other charms_, _will_, _it is felt_, _make the volume precious in the eye of the earnes
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