

Transcribed from the 1909 Bernhard Tauchnitz edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org





                                THEY AND I


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                                    BY

                             JEROME K. JEROME

                                AUTHOR OF
           “THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW,” “THREE MEN ON
                     THE BUMMEL,” “PAUL KELVER,” ETC.

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                           _COPYRIGHT EDITION_

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                                 LEIPZIG

                            BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

                                  1909.




CHAPTER I


“IT is not a large house,” I said.  “We don’t want a large house.  Two
spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you see marked there
on the plan, next to the bathroom, and which will just do for a bachelor,
will be all we shall require—at all events, for the present.  Later