Strona:Jerome K. Jerome - Trzej ludzie w jednej łodzi.djvu/40

Six of you! — and you can‘t find a coat that I put down not five minutes ago! Well, of all the ——“
 Then he‘d get up, and find that he had been sitting on it, and would call out:
 „Oh, you can give it up! I‘ve found it myself now. Might just as well ask the cat to find anything as expect you people to find it“.
 And, when half an hour had been spent in tying up his finger, and a new glass had been got, and the tools, and the ladder, and the chair, and the candle had been brought, he would have another go, the whole family, including the girl and the charwoman, standing round in a semi-circle, ready to help.
 Two people would have to hold the chair, and a third would help him up on it, and hold him there, and a fourth would hand him a nail, and a fifth would pass him up the hammer, and he would take hold of the nail, and drop it.
 „There!“ he would say, in an injured tone, „now the nail‘s gone.“
 And we would all have to go down on our knees and grovel for it, while he would stand on the chair, and grunt, and want to know if he was to be kept there all the evening.
 The nail would be found at last, but by that time he would have lost the hammer.
 „Where‘s the hammer? What did I do with the hammer? Great heavens! Seven of you, gaping round there, and you don‘t know what I did with the hammer!“
 We would find the hammer for him, and