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George made no answer, and we found, on going over, that he had
been asleep for sometime; so we placed the bath where he could tumble
into it on getting out in the morning, and went to bed ourselves.

Tumble: to fall quickly and without control

George did not respond as he was asleep. Harris and George made
mischief by placing the bathtub next to George’s bed so that he would
fall into out as he woke up on the pretext that this way he would take a
bath as soon as he got up.

Summary

The narrator of the story, Jerome, was proud of his packing
skills. He was supposed to go on a trip with his friends George

and Harris. He told them to leave the whole matter of packing
to himself, to which they readily agreed. George sat on the

easy chair and Harris cocked his legs on the table and
watched Jerome do the packing. But this wasn’t what Jerome
wanted. When he said that he wanted to do all the packing

himself, what he meant was that he was willing to be in charge
of everything and direct his friends to work efficiently under

his supervision. He was really pissed at them for just sitting
about watching him work. It was uncomfortable for Jerome to
just sit idle and see another person work alone. His energetic

nature made him wants to get up and superintend.

When Jerome packed the bag, Harris pointed out that Jerome

had forgotten to pack the boots. So, he had to open the bag
again and pack his boots in and just he was going to close it,

he doubted if he had packed his toothbrush. Whenever he
would be about to travel, he would get nightmares of
forgetting to pack his toothbrush. Then he would wake up and

go on to hunt for it. Then, in the morning, he would pack it
before he used it and then he had to unpack again to get it and

would repack, forgetting to put the toothbrush in again. Then,
he had to rush upstairs to fetch it. He always ends up carrying
the toothbrush wrapped up in his pocket-handkerchief.

As usual, Jerome had to search the whole bag. He found
George’s and Harris’s toothbrushes eighteen times over but he
couldn’t find his own toothbrush. At last, he found it inside a