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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