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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
THREE INVALIDS. - SUFFERINGS OF GEORGE AND HARRIS. - A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDREDAND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES. - USEFUL PRESCRIPTIONS. - CURE FOR LIVER COMPLAINT INCHILDREN. - WE AGREE THAT WE ARE OVERWORKED, AND NEED REST. - A WEEK ON THEROLLING DEEP? - GEORGE SUGGESTS THE RIVER. - MONTMORENCY LODGES AN OBJECTION.- ORIGINAL MOTION CARRIED BY MAJORITY OF THREE TO ONE.THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We weresitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean,of course.We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinaryfits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said thatHE had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what HE was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out oforder. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular,in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I hadthem all.It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled tothe conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. Thediagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which Ihad a touch - hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in anunthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget whichwas the first distemper I plunged into - some fearful, devastating scourge, I know - and, before I had glancedhalf down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. Icame to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for monthswithout knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance - found, as I expected, that Ihad that too, - began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so startedalphabetically - read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commencein about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far asthat was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemedto have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I couldconclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid'sknee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected thatI had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do withouthousemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being awareof it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases afterzymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
CHAPTER I.
Healthy is a great word, but try out this longer and more expressive option
salubrious
Don't use a tiny word to say small - try four syllables
diminutive
Instead of interesting, consider something with more pizzazz
invigorating
hello guys
it has been a while since my last being here
you know what hectic days are
but after all i am back again
so talking about places is fun
it makes you start speaking
lets see our state of today
Washington
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It is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located north of Oregon, west of Idaho and south of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889.Washington is the 18th most extensive and the 13th most populous of the 50 United States. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, and industry along the Puget Sound region of the Salish Sea, an inlet of the Pacific consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords, and bays carved out by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep rainforests in the west, mountain ranges in the west, center, northeast and far southeast, and a semi-arid eastern basin given over to intensive agriculture. Washington is the second most populous state on the west coast and in the western United States after California.
Washington was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States, and is the only U.S. state named after a president. Washington is commonly called Washington state or occasionally the State of Washington to distinguish it from the U.S. capital. However, Washingtonians (residents of Washington) and many residents of neighboring states and Canadians from southern B.C. normally refer to the state simply as "Washington", while usually referring to the nation's capital as "Washington, D.C." or simply "D.C." The area was originally called "Columbia" after the Columbia River; however, to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia, the area was renamed Washington
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and those who like to know more of the state pls visit the following
http://access.wa.gov/visiting/washingtonmaps.aspx