After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

During these last years Jerome spent more time at his farmhouse in Ewelme near Wallingford. Chilvers: an improbable comedy imagined by Jerome K. While reintroducing the same characters in the setting of a foreign bicycle tour the book was nonetheless unable to capture the life-force and historic roots of its predecessor and it enjoyed only a mild success.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).