[Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome]@TWC D-Link bookThree Men in a Boat CHAPTER III 2/10
Don't you, any of you, worry yourselves about that.
_I'll_ do all that." And then he would take off his coat, and begin.
He would send the girl out for sixpen'orth of nails, and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get; and, from that, he would gradually work down, and start the whole house. [Picture: Candle] "Now you go and get me my hammer, Will," he would shout; "and you bring me the rule, Tom; and I shall want the step-ladder, and I had better have a kitchen-chair, too; and, Jim! you run round to Mr.Goggles, and tell him, 'Pa's kind regards, and hopes his leg's better; and will he lend him his spirit-level ?' And don't you go, Maria, because I shall want somebody to hold me the light; and when the girl comes back, she must go out again for a bit of picture-cord; and Tom!--where's Tom ?--Tom, you come here; I shall want you to hand me up the picture." And then he would lift up the picture, and drop it, and it would come out of the frame, and he would try to save the glass, and cut himself; and then he would spring round the room, looking for his handkerchief.
He could not find his handkerchief, because it was in the pocket of the coat he had taken off, and he did not know where he had put the coat, and all the house had to leave off looking for his tools, and start looking for his coat; while he would dance round and hinder them. [Picture: Nails etc.] "Doesn't anybody in the whole house know where my coat is? I never came across such a set in all my life--upon my word I didn't.
Six of you!--and you can't find a coat that I put down not five minutes ago! Well, of all the--" Then he'd get up, and find that he had been sitting on it, and would call out: "Oh, you can give it up! I've found it myself now.
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