CHAPTER III.
Arrangements settled .-- Harris's method of doing work .-- How the elderly, family-man puts up a picture .-- George makes a sensible, remark .-- Delights of early morning bathing .-- Provisions for getting upset.
So, on the following evening, we again assembled, to discuss and arrange our plans.

Harris said: "Now, the first thing to settle is what to take with us.

Now, you get a bit of paper and write down, J., and you get the grocery catalogue, George, and somebody give me a bit of pencil, and then I'll make out a list." That's Harris all over--so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.
He always reminds me of my poor Uncle Podger.

You never saw such a commotion up and down a house, in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job.

A picture would have come home from the frame-maker's, and be standing in the dining-room, waiting to be put up; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say: "Oh, you leave that to _me_.