Three Men in a Boat a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Following the overwhelming success of "Three Men in a Boat", Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled "Three Men on the Bummel" (also known as "Three Men on Wheels", 1900). The story begins by introducing George, Harris, Jerome (always referred to as "J."), and Jerome's dog, named Montmorency. The men are spending an evening in J.'s room, smoking
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