Do you find this story funny? What are the humorous elements in it? (Pick out at least three, think about what happens, as well as how it is described.)

Yes, this story is certainly funny. Not only is the way in which the three friends pack for the trip quite amusingly, but also the way the author narrates all the incidents is very entertaining.

• The first humorous element is when the author offers to pack, George and Harris leaves the whole task to him. Consequently, he has to do the packing although his real intention was to supervise the job.

• The second humorous element is when George placed the butter on the chair and Harris accidently sat on it and it got stuck at his back. When they searched it for packing it was missing. They walk all round the room and at last George finds it at Harris’s back.

• The third humorous element is that Montmorency squirms in where he is not wanted. He wants somebody stumble over him and curse him steadily for an hour. He pretends that lemons were rats.

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