I want Chapter wise expailnation of three men in a boat
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The story starts by presenting George, Harris, Jerome (always referred to as "J."), and Jerome's dog, a fox terrier called Montmorency. The men are outgoings an evening in J.'s room, smoking and chatting illnesses from which they elaborate they suffer. They conclude that they are all suffering from "overburden" and need a break. A visit in the country and a sea trip are both measured. The country stay is disallowed because Harris claims that it would be boring, the sea-trip after J. describes bad experiences of his brother-in-law and a friend on sea trips. The three finally agree on a boating holiday up the River Thames, from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford, during which they will camp, anyhow more of J.'s anecdotes about previous accidents with tents and camping stoves.
They agreed off the next Saturday. George must go to work that day, so J. and Harris make their way to Kingston by train. They cannot find the right train at Waterloo station (the station's confusing layout was a well-known theme of Victorian comedy) so they payoff a train driver to take his train to Kingston, where they collect the hired boat and start the trip. They meet George further up river at Weybridge.
The rest of the story defines their river trip and the events that happen. The book's original purpose as a guidebook is apparent as J., the narrator, defines passing landmarks and villages such as Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Church, Magna Carta Island and Monkey Island, and muses on historical associations of these places. However, he regularly divagates into funny stories that variety from the untrustworthiness of barometers for weather forecasting to the problems met when learning to play the Scottish bagpipes. The most recurrent topics of J.'s stories are river activities such as fishing and boating and the problems they present to the inexpert and incautious and to the three men on preceding boating trips.
The narrator is with this friends smoking discussing the illness they have and it might lead to a serious disease or a death. And he is also going in a flashback in which he remembers that he once went to a British Museum for the treatment of his hay fever and remember meeting a doctor who told him not to stuff up his mind with the thoughts that are unnecessary or you do not understand but the narrator still believes he suffer from a serious illness and a disease and that is liver problem. So to fight that feeling all of the friends decided to take a vacation which will help them feel good about themselves.
Chapter 2:
All of the friends started making plans for the boat trip, they plan to camp and later decide to stay in a hotel as it would not be safe for them to camp, but some of the friends say that camping would actually offer them a true escape. All of the men decide to go to a pub to discuss the arrangments for the trip.
Chapter 3:
At the pub, the men make a list of all the things they will be taking along on a trip while making a list they realize that their list is longer than they expected. They make plans about washing the clothes with the river water and they should only take the things along without them they cannot survive, rather than taking everything with them.