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George always assumes you know the end of the story while he is telling you the beginning; it is an annoying method.
~ Three Men on the Bummel
We gave him all the regular ones - the time-honoured lies that have done duty up the river with every boating-man for years past - and added seven entirely original ones that we had invented for ourselves, including a really quite likely story, founded, to a certain extent, on an all but true episode, which had actually happened in a modified degree some years ago to friends of ours - a story that a mere child could have believed without injuring itself, much.
~ Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)