Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Kingston -- Instructive remarks on early English history -- Instructive observations on carved oak and life in general -- Sad case of Stivvings, junior -- Musings on antiquity -- I forget that I am steering -- Interesting result -- Hampton Court Maze -- Harris as a guide.

It was a glorious morning, late spring or early summer, as you care to take it, when the dainty sheen of grass and leaf is blushing to a deeper green; and the year seems like a fair young maid, trembling with strange, wakening pulses on the brink of womanhood.