They and I

They and I is a country life fiction story written by Jerome K. Jerome,  an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat, The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow, Three Men On The Bummel, Paul Kelver, Etc.

A man and his three children leave the “Little Mother” at home in the city and set up temporary housekeeping in a country cottage to supervise the remodeling of the house he has just purchased there. The story is narrated by the father. His interactions with his children, interspersed with his own recollections of past events, make for hilarious reading.