Jerome begins with the evergreen trees that look so dowdy beside the spring blossom and summer roses, yet hold their colour when winter strips the rest. From there he turns to people of the same kind, and to a comic memory of himself and George stranded on a rickety one-legged table in the dark.
A brief piece that shows the author of Three Men in a Boat at his most tender, with the jokes still intact. Download the free EPUB.