Question

THREE MEN IN A BOAT CHAPTER 4 SUMMARY

Answer 1

Summary of chapter 4..

Continuing to plan, the friends discuss what they will need for cooking. Although paraffin oil stoves are more common, they decide to bring a methylated spirit stove, remembering how the paraffin oil had oozed everywhere on a previous boat trip.

For breakfast and lunch, they choose food that is easy to cook - but not cheese, because of its strong smell. J. launches into a long digression about when his friend Tom once asked him to transport some cheese on a train journey. Everyone sitting in J.’s car left because the smell was too strong. When J. delivered the cheese to Tom and his wife, Tom’s wife refused to stay in the house until the cheese was eaten. They could not escape the cheese's stench until they buried it miles away at the seaside.

Back at his house, J. volunteers to pack the clothes, believing himself an exceptionally efficient packer. However, he keeps forgetting items, and then has to unpack in order to fit them in. To the reader, he expounds briefly on his habit of losing his toothbrush when traveling.

Harris and George watch J. pack with great amusement, and volunteer to pack the food when J. finally finishes. They are no better at it – they constantly forget items, and Harris steps in the butter. Throughout it all, they keep tripping over Montmorency. After some bickering, they finish, and assign George to wake them up at 6:30 the next morning.

Answer 2

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the summary of Three Men in a Boat chapter 4 is goes like this -
Then they discussed the food question. George so practical, said
Beain with breakfast." They would need a teapot, a kettle, and a methylated
spint stove." "No oil, he said with a significant look, and the other two
It reminded them how an oil stove was a disaster the oil oozed
everywhere-into the rudder, into the river and spoilt the atmosphere
even the wind brought with it the fragrance of paraffin oil. In the end
they had to take an oath at midnight in a lonely field-never to take
paraffine oil with them.
George suggested taking eggs, bacon, cold meat, tea, bread and
butter and jambut no cheese. Cheese, like oil, can really smell.
The writer is reminded how his friend once asked him to take a
couple of cheeses from Liverpool to London. The smell of cheese
made the horses dash off in terror at a great speed. They could be
controlled only when a clever porter put a handkerchief over the horses
nose. In the train, people ran out of the bogey in which he was sitting
Nobody entered the bogey as the smell was so strong. Even his friend
Tom's wife reacted sharply to the smell of the cheeses. She left the
house to stay at a hotel as she did not want to keep the cheeses with
her. Finally, Tom had to take them to a beach and bury them there
They brought out a big gladstone for the clothes and a couple of
hampers for the food items and the cooking utensils and put them in
a heap in the middle of the floor
The writer said he would pack. He was rather proud of his skill in
doing that. His two friends agreed so readily that he telt there was
something uncanny about it. He felt irritated as he didn't like the idea
of others sitting about doing nothing when he was working.
However, he packed. When he was strapping the bag, Harris
remarked, "Aren't you going to put the boots in?" The author is thoroughly
upset at this and further irritated by George's laughter
Jim had to open the bag and put the boots in. When he finally
finished, George and Harris offered to do the food hampers. Now Jim
sat and looked. They started by breaking a cup then Harris squashed
a tomato by putting jam bottle on top of it. They stepped on things, they
so nervous that they put light things at the bottom and heavy
g on top. All the preserves smashed. They upset salt over everything
dnd Harris sat on the butter. They went looking for butter all over the
room. They found it on Harris' back.
Montmorency was in it all, of course. He put his foot in the jam,
he pretended that the lemons were rats and got into the hamper and
killed three of them before Harris could land him with a frying pan. The
packing ended at 12.50 at midnight
They decided to go to sleep. Harris decided to stay with them and
they tossed for beds. Harris had to sleep with Jim. George wanted to
know at what time he should wake up the two
Wake us up at 6.30, George', they said but George was already
fast asleep. So they placed the bath tub where he could tumble intoit
on getting out in the morning and went to bed themselves.