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
Don the Talking Dog man threw his arms around Don's neck and the pair nearly drowned before a policeman on horseback came to help. He himself was knocked off of his horse but the arrival of three lifeguards in a boat rescued the situation. Soon after Don returned to Germany to enjoy his retirement and he died in 1915. Don the Talking Dog Don the Talking Dog (1905–1915) was a popular vaudeville act in the early 20th century. Don was raised in Theerhütte, Germany by Martin Ebers and Martha Haberland. His breed is unconfirmed - reports state that he was a German hunting dog,