Question

can anybody tell me the summary of chapter 18, three men in a boat, not from the internet. plz tell fast.....

Answer 1

From Streatly, the three men row to Culham and camp in the boat for night. Part of the trip includes a long stretch with no locks, which is preferred by sport rowers, Jerome says, but not by pleasure boaters, we enjoy going through the locks. He tells the story of going through a lock one busy day a Hampton court.
A photographer has set up at the lock to take pictures of all boats in the lock with the people dressed in their boating costumes. Jerome and George pose vainly as the photographer sets up. They don't notice the nose of their boat has caught under part of the lock, and the rising water threatens to flip the boat. They pushed away just in time, and just as the photographer snaps the photo they are caught falling over, feet in the air.

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Answer 2

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The boat left Streatley quite early in the morning. The river from Streatley to Wallingford is a long, boring stretch without a lock. The narrator says that he is fond of locks, because they break the monotony of boating. He likes sitting in the boat and slowly rising out of water into new reaches to see fresh views. At a lock one could have a passing chat with an old lock-keeper, his wife or daughter.

Talking of locks the narrator is reminded of an accident. It was a pleasant day at the lock. A photographer was ready to click. George sat down in a graceful attitude for the photograph. The girls were watching them and smiling. The narrator also arranged his hair and took up a position in the prow. Then all of a sudden a voice came. “Hi! Look at your nose.” The narrator looked at George’s nose, then at his own. ‘Push your nose out, can’t you, you – you two with the dog r another voice cried. Neither George nor the narrator could know what the matter was with their noses. But soon they realized the whole matter. The nose of their boat had got fixed under the woodwork of the lock. The in-coming water was rising. Without much thought, the two friends seized an oar and released their boat with a vigorous blow and saved themselves. The photograph which was clicked showed only their legs waving madly in the air. Nobody wanted to take it. Even George and the narrator refused to accept it