British Humorists Library Shorts - 2nd Issue

Bite-sized humouristic literature.
The funniest short stories by british humorists.

In this issue three stories by Jerome K. Jerome, author of "Three Men in a Boat":
Mrs. Korner Sins her Mercies
The New Utopia
Evergreens

2009 is the 150th anniversary of Jeromes birth, celebrate his wit by reading some of its less known works, gems youre not likely to forget.

Except from Evergreens;

So, religiously, every evening, my uncle would fasten a long chain to that poor dog, and drag him away from his happy home with the idea of exhausting him; and the dog would come back as fresh as paint, my uncle behind him, panting and clamoring for brandy.

My uncle said he should never have dreamed there could have been such stirring times in this prosaic nineteenth century as he had, training that dog.

Oh, the wild, wild scamperings over the breezy common—the dog trying to catch a swallow, and my uncle, unable to hold him back, following at the other end of the chain!

Oh, the merry frolics in the fields, when the dog wanted to kill a cow, and the cow wanted to kill the dog, and they each dodged round my uncle, trying to do it!

And, oh, the pleasant chats with the old ladies when the dog wound the chain into a knot around their legs, and upset them, and my uncle had to sit down in the road beside them, and untie them before they could get up again!

But a crisis came at last. It was a Saturday afternoon—uncle being exercised by dog in usual way...