I don't have a shop and a hotel.'Įvery six hours: lb of good, fresh meat, pint of beer 'But you're a chemist, aren't you?' I asked. He said, 'I don't have the things on the prescription.' I took it to the chemist's and gave it to him. After that, he wrote a prescription I and gave it to me. He listened to my heart and looked at my tongue. I told him about what I had read at the library. Life is too short! I'll tell you what is not wrong with me. I said, 'If I tell you what is wrong with me, you will die before I finish. After all, normal patients have only one or two diseases each. A doctor really must have practice! This time, I thought, he will get more practice with me than with a thousand normal patients. Whenever I think I am ill, he examines me and says I am fine. When I had walked into the library, I had been a happy, healthy man. With all the diseases I had, I knew my life was short. I began reading the book from the letter 'a' to the letter 'z' I had the symptoms of all the diseases in the book, except for one! I don't remember the name now, but it was something terrible. After some time, I began reading about another illness. I went to the British Museum Library to read about it.

I had every symptom that was written.Įvery time I read about an illness, I realise that I have it. I had read about all the symptoms of liver disease in a book. We were all feeling very ill, and we were unhappy about it. We were sitting in my room and were smoking and talking about our bad health. There were four of us - George, William Samuel Harris, myself (my friends call me J), and Montmorency. You can download the PDF, MP3 files to learn English offline! Let’s learn with English tivi on the topic: B1 Pre-Inter m ediate: “ Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K-Jerome right now! Later Gorge joined them and the journey began. There they hired boats were waiting for them. At Waterloo station they can not find the right train, so they had to bribe the engineer, so he sent his train is in Kingston. George on this day was at work, so Jay and Harris have gone to Kingston by train. The departure was scheduled for next Saturday. In the end, the friends decided to go up the Thames by boat from Kingston to Oxford, breaking camps for the nights. After a long discussion vacation in the countryside and the sea, walks were rejected. They came to the conclusion that all their troubles were due to overwork and they urgently need a vacation. Once in the evening, three friends were sitting smoking at Jay in the evening and were discussing the diseases from which they suffered terribly. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. Three Men in a Boatpublished in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K.

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