Three men in a boat / Трое в лодке, не считая собаки. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Is camping out pleasant in rainy weather? Why / why not?

5. Is it difficult to fix a tent?

6. What does your supper consist of when camping out in rainy weather?

7. What decision did the friends make?

8. Why does Montmorency look like an angel?

9. What does the narrator think about Montmorency’s staying on earth?

10. What was the last thing to discuss? Did the friends discuss it?

10. Retell the chapter for the persons of the narrator, Harris, George, Montmorency.

CHAPTER III

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[29 - that’s Harris all over – в этом весь Харрис] – 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 an agitation in a house, in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job. A picture would[30 - would – (зд.) служебный глагол, выражающий привычное действие, относящееся к прошедшему времени] 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.

And then he would take off his coat, and begin. He would send the girl out for nails, and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get; and, from that, he would gradually start the whole house[31 - and, from that, he would gradually start the whole house – и с этого момента он постепенно втягивает в работу весь дом].

“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.