Three Men in a Boat (To say Nothing of the Dog) / Трое в лодке, не считая собаки

  Now, you come along with me.  I know a place round the corner here, where you can get a drop of the finest Scotch whisky you ever tasted—put you right in less than no time.”

Harris always does know a place round the corner where you can get something brilliant in the drinking line.В  I believe that if you met Harris up in Paradise (supposing such a thing likely), he would immediately greet you with:

“So glad you’ve come, old fellow; I’ve found a nice place round the corner here, where you can get some really first-class nectar.

In the present instance, however, as regarded the camping out, his practical view of the matter came as a very timely hint.В  Camping out in rainy weather is not pleasant.

It is evening.В  You are wet through, and there is a good two inches of water in the boat, and all the things are damp.В  You find a place on the banks that is not quite so puddly as other places you have seen, and you land and lug out the tent, and two of you proceed to fix it.

It is soaked and heavy, and it flops about, and tumbles down on you, and clings round your head and makes you mad.В  The rain is pouring steadily down all the time.В  It is difficult enough to fix a tent in dry weather: in wet, the task becomes herculean.В  Instead of helping you, it seems to you that the other man is simply playing the fool.

“Here! what are you up to?” you call out.

“What are you up to?” he retorts; “leggo, can’t you?”

“Don’t pull it; you’ve got it all wrong, you stupid ass!” you shout.

“No, I haven’t,” he yells back; “let go your side!”

“I tell you you’ve got it all wrong!” you roar, wishing that you could get at him; and you give your ropes a lug that pulls all his pegs out.

“Ah, the bally idiot!” you hear him mutter to himself; and then comes a savage haul, and away goes your side.  You lay down the mallet and start to go round and tell him what you think about the whole business, and, at the same time, he starts round in the same direction to come and explain his views to you.