Question

How did harris sing a comic song and with what result?what does this tell us about him

Answer 1

Harris is the funniest character in the story 'Three Men in a Boat'. His extreme ideas about certain things in life are quite funny and ridiculous. Singing is one of them. He  has a conceited misconception about his singing abilities. Harris's friends who have heard him sing believe he must not be allowed to sing. Once Harris got an opportunity to sing at a party. Everyone was quite excited to hear him sing. He surprised everyone by saying he would sing a comic song! As Harris began singing, he paid least botheration to follow the singing conventions such as correct phrasing, vocalization, maintaining proper scale and pitch of voice. While singing, he would stop in the middle of the song, and start arguing with the pianist. He would restart the song and keep on repeating just the first three lines until he forgot the song and again stop singing. Then he would start again, this time standing in front of the piano and ask the gathering to sing with him in chorus. The gathering would start singing, nobody knowing what to sing. Then the pianist would complain about Harris's song and scale. Harris would change the pianist. Thus Harris would make such a donkey of himself trying to sing a comic song!