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Scenic beauty of Kingston
Hampton Court Maze
Comic song of Harris
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Kingston was the place from where Jim, Harris and Montomorency were to start their river journey. They reached there by a train from Waterloo. Their boat was waiting for them at Kingston. They stored their luggage in it and stepped into it.
As they rowed through it, they found its quaint back streets, coming down to the water’s edge, looking quite picturesque in the sunlight. The sparkling river with its drifting barges, the wooded towpath, the nicely kept villas on the other side, the distant view of the grey old palace of the Tudors, all made a sunny picture. Kinston looked so bright but calm, so full of life. The tranquility of the place had an intoxicating effect on Jim.
The narrator remembered Kingston was a royal borough once, and nobles and courtiers lived there, near their King. The architectural features of the houses and buildings breathed of the days of the royalty that lived here in the past.
Hampton Court Maze
Harris had to face a lot of embarrassment inside the maze at Hampton Court on account of his over-confidence and boastful attitude. Harris thought the maze was too simple to be called a maze. As he went inside, he found people struggling to find their way out. He scolded them for their inability to find the way out. He told them to keep taking the first turning to the right for ten minutes, and they will find the way out. Harris began walking, taking the right turn; many people began following him. Even after walking for a long time they could not find the way out. Harris suggested they would go back and start afresh. However hard Harris tried, he could not find the way out. Finally people became angry with him, and the experienced maze keeper was called and took everyone out.
Comic song of Harris
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!