Guarding everyone, this brave young man ( not technically) he's really a fox-terrier. The liveliest of the group he has four legs, is terribly short with a small tail, angers easily is always ready for a fight. The other members of this desperate, oddball trio are J.'s friends George and Harris, don't forget Montmorency. doesn't have, worries him immensely so leave the city or the end is near thinks the almost wise man. J.(Jerome) thinks he has every illness in the book and he's read it too, except housemaid's knee. The men need a long rest, they're quite run down but from what though ? The boys don't actually work much, these hypochondriacs I mean sick men just want to have a little fun. And go someplace else, they should have stayed put indeed. Three young gentlemen and I use that word very loosely are desperate to get away from the fast pace tensions of every day 19th Century London life ( the horror !). In this case the abridged version would be a hell of a lot better than the original and I would have given it more than 3-stars. A good editor could cut this to a really wonderful funny book only about a third-long. Highly amusing incidents intermixed with purple prose, a travelogue of some of England's most boring towns, and whatever struck the author as (I want to say interesting, but I don't believe it really) something that would fill in the narrative and be 'educational'.

How the waters lovingly embraced her and gave her peace. Near the end was a highly-romanticised account of a woman with an illegitimate baby committing suicide by drowning. The book is full of side-stories, none of them particularly interesting and some of them absolutely dire. One gets the impression that JKJ wouldn't at all mind being reincarnated as an immoral, street-fighting, anarchic dog in the care of very liberal and approving owners.

There are also amusing incidents with the fox terrier Montmorency, whose chief pleasures in life seem to be fighting and hanging out with packs of street dogs. Bamm, down she goes, and hahaha, its just so funny, you have to laugh.

Sort of like watching a very pompous-looking person talking loudly into their cell-phone and paying no attention to where they are going and therefore fails to notice the banana skin everyone else has been avoiding. Part of it is of a particular kind of obvious humour.

Three men in boat book