Three Men in a Boat Boat" is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog". The trip is
The Three Little Men in the Wood false queen are then put inside said cask and rolled down a hill into a nearby river. This tale combines two sequences, which are often found together—see, for example, "The Enchanted Wreath", "Maiden Bright-eye", or "Bushy Bride"—but which can also be two separate stories: The story appears to be influenced by Charles Perrault's variant, "The Fairies", as the heroine receives a similar reward to the heroine in that tale. The Three Little Men in the Wood "The Three Little Men in the Wood" or "The Three Little Gnomes in the Forest" () is a German fairy tale collected in 1812