Three Men in a Boat

Before you read Chapter 16, can you guess what happens? Choose one answer each time.

1 a) It starts to rain.

b) The weather is fine.

2 a) The friends go back to London by boat.

b) The friends leave the boat and go home by train.

‘Aren’t you going to put the boots in?’ Harris asked.

Now the nail’s gone.’

had to pay for

he had killed twelve chickens, which

But we were three to one,

he had often tried to be ill,

friend of mine once

I know what it is like

we were all quite certain of one thing — we had been doing too much work.