The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-13

.hcreut series OF Memoirs viii
4ich l have endeavored 10 Hiustratf
ref" Of the mental DccuIiaTItieS oi
friend Mr.. Sherlock Homes,
.#c been struck BY The difficulty
..Irn have experienced in picking
..t examples which shall in every
answer my Durpose. Eof m
.a cases in which Homes has per
#..ue3 some tour de force Of analy-
...# reasoning, and has d~einonstrat-
lice value Of his peculiar methods
If Investigation. the facts them
...- have often been so slight or
. COMMONPLACE that } could not feel
..-tificd in laying thcm before the
...HLio. ON the other hand. il has
..-Hucutiy happened that he has been
~....rrund in some research where
.#a facts haze been Of the most re
.aurhabIc and dramatic character,
.. where the snare which lie has
self taken in determining their
...3ar4 has been less pronounced
...8 T.. as his DiOgrapher. could wish.
..r small matter which / have
#.oujcIed under the heading Of the
0f the Gloria Scott, may serve
am example Of this ScylIa and
".lrybdis which arc forever threat
ing the historian. It may be that
the business Of which | am now
coat to write the part which my
rnd played is not sufficiently ac-
.~.u}uated. and yet the whole train
TOD. - IIii.t'tll'' 10 So 'hAi' NNt'i-
.Htt cannot bring myself to omit
il nntirly from the series.
II had been q close rainy day IN
october our blinds We're half-dr8Wn
and Holmes tav curlcd upon the sofa.
.e3ding and ~rereading q letter which
nc had received by the morning
post. For myself my term Of service
i'm India had trained me to stand heat
."jter than cold. and a Thermometer Of
$50 was no hardship. Blu the paper
was embarrassing. Parliament had
risen. Everybody was out of town,
and / ycarned for the glades of the
New Forest or the Shiugle Of SOuthSea.
y depicted bank account had caused
me to postpone my holiday. and as to
my companion, neither the country
nor the sea presented the slightest at
traction 10 him. He loved to lie in the
very centre Of five millions of people,
with his flamcnts stretching out and
running through them, responsive to
cvcr% little rumOr or suspicion of un-
solved crime. Appreciation of Nature
found no place among his many gifts,
and his only change was when he
turned his mind from the cVil-docr
of the town to track down his brother
Of the country.
Finding that Holmes was too alb
sorI al for conversation ! had tossed
aside the barren paper, and. leaning
back in my chair, 1 fell into a brown
study. Suddenly my companions
NoItt broke IN upon my lHouSIllS-
"Tou'rc right WATSON" said he. 1T
docs seem a very preposterous way of
Seil.,hE a dlS2ute.
NoSj p1epoStefouS eNCl3lilGo'
ahI men S~updciIy rt"lL%IIlS nov ne
'"H eJ'iot" = " "a ~
.''"I, I 90 ~ III 10y on"a1 a+''
"' ,v > - Gt"nN daIr1on95 o,iad
This is beyond anything which |
could have imagined"
.--r,- l-
"ynu remember" said he. that some
Iiitfr tina 400 whom read Won tba
mich Il close reasoner follows the I'M
spoken thoughts of his companion, You
were inclined to treat the matter as a
mere tour-dc-f0rce OF the author. on
my remurking that I WAS constantly
il, the habit Of doing he same thing
Van .xnrresad incrednlitv"
"oh. no."
"purb.nn NOT with ,onr tona,,c NV
f..., W1tenn hnt rarfainIv win vor,
r,r.n u,hIl ta| ,,n,, hrnS.
....n vow, nanot ana ontcr ,nnn - !
..afn Of tho11%ht WAS ynrV hannv f. |
r.,.,, Ia n 49, At W Of roadina - &c
~ ,'nnt xxx If I,o5 L+na 3rtc ~,
,,anf tb5+ had haon ~ '.an,art
.uh CON -,
r.,I v-as etiiI far from, satisfied
.t. tb ,,rJ- v-biob 10, ,oal -
r, lo i'll t r'5 ,a9gd,n, dso"1 b ~
.4ncIusions from the actions of the
NAM whom he observed If re-
n..u,bar right he stumbled over = be9n
49, .+.,te 72hnl-nd M a. ~ e+ar o166
So. bin. But [ have been seated quietly
n INV chair and what clpWS can 7
have Given vOuo" !
.v., do vo,,rsaIf an ni,,sticn The
, xxx ~
....... h. ,ybTrr, Ia gbaII av,rose his
..lar+one and vorrs are faithful ser
,...,."
.5, . av 4bo+ WOOL
... +,.,f;, = tLa,aL+c fraro 80
- Thoughts =" HS AS"
l'oi FEATURES ana eSpeclaIIY your
'|. ferhaDS you cannot yourself re-
mo-" your reEefle commenced?