THREE MEN IN A BOAT

         "This was hardly what I intended."

 Who is the speaker? What did he hardly intend and what did he really intend?

 Answer: The above sentence has been taken from the humorous book, Three Men in a Boat, which is written by Jerome Klapka Jerome. The author of the story, Three Men in a Boat, is the speaker here.

What he did hardly intend was that the job of packing should be left to him. What he really intended was that George and Harris should pack things under his direction. He would occasionally interfere to show them how to pack.