In the chapter a fishy story describe the false tales of catching the trout
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About the Story
A Fishy Story
is an amusing story, excerpted from Jerome K Jerome's novel
Three Men in a Boat
. The novel charts the adventurous journeysof three friends and their dog as they go fromone strange place to another.
A Fishy Story
narrates the incidents of one evening when three friends who go to a pub in thecourse of their travels and are taken for a ride by the local people. There is no malice here.There is no serious matter at stake. The centre of all activity and attention is a huge fish thatthe three friends marvel at. During this time a number of local people come in one after theother and as they see the amazed friends admiring the fish, they each claim to have caught it!It is only at the end of the story that the truth of the matter is revealed.
Source and publication of the story:
³A Fishy Story´ is taken out from Jerome K Jerome¶sfamous comic novel ³
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
´ (1889). It can be read as a separate episode.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog
), publishedin 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston andOxford.The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.)and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and CarlHentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whomhe often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jeromeadmits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, containsan element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time.
Summary
The writer and his friend George went into the parlour and sat down. There was anold man in the parlour. He was smoking a long clay pipe. They started chatting. Theymade conversation about the weather and concluded that the next day would be a fineday.Somehow it was revealed that the narrator and his friend were visitors and they were goingaway the next day. Suddenly a pause ensued in the conversation. They were eying the roomand saw a trout, a monstrous fish, in a dusty glass case which was fixed on the chimney piece. The old man described it as ³fine fellow´ and as being ³Quite uncommon.´The trout was of eighteen pounds and six ounces. Many persons claimed to have caught thefish. The old man told that he had caught the fish about sixteen years ago. It was aremarkably a fine fish. They could not take their eyes off the fish. The local carrier arrivedwith a pot of beer in his hands. The carrier told them that he had caught the trout about fiveyears ago. He caught the fish with a