Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

“Now for breakfast we shall want a frying-pan”—(Harris said it was indigestible; but we merely urged him not to be an ass, and George went on)—“a tea-pot and a kettle, and a methylated spirit stove.”