Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Джером Клапка Джером

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Джером К. Джером / Jerome К. Jerome

Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

© Матвеев С. А., адаптация текста, комментарии

© ООО «�здательство АСТ», 2017

Chapter I

There were four of us – George, and William Samuel Harris,[1 - William Samuel Harris – Уильям Сэмюэль Гаррис] and myself, and Montmorency.[2 - Montmorency – Монморанси] We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were – bad from a medical point of view, of course.

We were all feeling bad, and we were quite nervous about it. Harris said he had such a very bad headache that he hardly knew what he was doing. And then George said that he had a headache too. As for me, it was my liver that was out of order. I read about the various symptoms of a sick liver in a circular that offered liverpills. I had them all.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but when I read a medicine advertisement I usually come to the conclusion that I am suffering from the disease that was described.

One day I went to the British Museum to read about hay fever,[3 - hay fever – сенная лихорадка]I fancy I had it.[4 - I fancy I had it. – Думаю, что она у меня была.] I took the book, and read all I needed; and then I idly turned the leaves, and began to study diseases, generally. Immediately I understood that I had some fearful, devastating illness.

I sat for a while, frozen with horror; and then, in despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever[5 - typhoid fever – брюшной тиф] – read the symptoms – discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it – wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus’s Dance[6 - St. Vitus’s Dance – пляска святого Витта] – found, as I expected, that I had that too, – and so started alphabetically. I had every malady they wrote about! The only malady I had not got was housemaid’s knee.[7 - housemaid’s knee – воспаление сумки надколенника]

I felt rather hurt about this at first. Why hadn’t I got housemaid’s knee? After a while, however, I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid’s knee.

There were no more diseases after zymosis,[8 - zymosis – инфекция] so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.[9 - there was nothing else the matter with me – больше РјРЅРµ СѓР¶ ничто РЅРµ СѓРіСЂРѕР¶Р