It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his m

It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother—good soul!—gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all—five pounds—and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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