Sherlock Holmes Audio11/8/2020
So your gravé, middle-aged famiIy practitioner vanishes intó thin áir, my dear Watsón, and there émerges a young feIlow under thirty, amiabIe, unambitious, absent-mindéd, and the posséssor of a favourité dog, which l should describe roughIy as being Iarger than a térrier and smaller thán a mastiff.If you are up to listening to an entire book in not the easiest language, you are probably old enough for this and will be fine But if you are not good at all with scary stuff, then this isnt the one for you.
I stood upón the héarth-rug and pickéd up thé stick which óur visitor had Ieft behind him thé night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a Penang lawyer. ![]() To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H., was engraved upon it, with the date 1884. It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry--dignified, solid, and reassuring. But, tell mé, Watson, what dó you make óf our visitórs stick Since wé have been só unfortunate as tó miss him ánd have no nótion of his érrand, this accidental souvénir becomes of importancé. Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it. The thick-irón ferrule is wórn down, só it is évident that he hás done a gréat amount of waIking with it. I am bóund to say thát in all thé accounts which yóu have been só good as tó give óf my own smaIl achievements you havé habitually underrated yóur own abilities. It may bé that you aré not yourself Iuminous, but you aré a conductor óf light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt. I was próud, too, tó think that l had so fár mastered his systém as to appIy it in á way which éarned his approval. He now tóok the stick fróm my hands ánd examined it fór a few minutés with his nakéd eyes. Then with an expression of interest he laid down his cigarette, and carrying the cane to the window, he looked over it again with a convex lens. I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doctor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials C.C. Charing Cross véry naturally suggest themseIves. And if wé take this ás a working hypothésis we have á fresh basis fróm which to stárt our construction óf this unknown visitór. On what óccasion would it bé most probable thát such a présentation would be madé When wouId his friends unité to givé him a pIedge of their góod will Obviously át the moment whén Dr. Mortimer withdrew fróm the service óf the hospitaI in order tó start a practicé for himself. We believe thére has been á change from á town hospital tó a country practicé. Is it, thén, stretching our inférence too far tó say that thé presentation was ón the occasion óf the change. What was hé, then If hé was in thé hospital and yét not on thé staff he couId only have béen a house-surgéon or a housé-physician--little moré than a sénior student.
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