Each friend was of the view that he was doing much more work than the other two so sometimes an argument took place amongst them. Harris’ opinion was that it was he alone who had been doing much work while George blamed that Harris slept and ate which the writer supported. Their argument ended with an agreement that George and Harris should scull up past Reading and the writer tow the boat from there, although he was little reluctant to do the hard labour.
The three friends started to discuss about their rowing experiences where they each recounted their stories of their first efforts in the art of oars-man-ship and various other boat cruises they had undertaken over the years.