Characters
Jim, the narrator : Jim describes an old incident and remembers how people had misbehaved when a German singer Herr Boschen sang a song for them. It had happened because he and his companion had regarded themselves as superior to the two young men from Germany. He and Harris boast that they could not be blackmailed by a gentleman who told them that they had tresspassed.
Harris : Harris is a well-made man. He looks hard and bony. He is bold and asks the gentleman how he would remove them from the spot. He threatens him in such a way that he never returns. He gets angiij very soon. Though he does not know how to sing, he insists that he can sing. He does not know that he makes an ass of himself when he sings.
Plot
where George joins them. Three important incidents are described in this chapter. The first concerns the man who tries to blackmail them. The second concerns the song of Herr Boschen. The third concerns the narrator who sculls upto Walton. He finds himself sculling round and round at the same place. This provides amusement to the onlookers. Then George arrives and joins them.