WHat's the price of being too kind? That's the question that Jerome K. Jerome, creator of Three Men in a Boat asks in this short piece. This edition has been crafted with great care for your reading pleasure.
"Kindness," argued little Mrs. Pennycoop, "costs nothing." "And, speaking generally, my dear, is valued precisely at cost price," retorted Mr. Pennycoop, who, as an auctioneer of twenty years' experience, had enjoyed much opportunity of testing the attitude of the public towards...