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Baker Street Elementary – Monographically Speaking

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Why do you not write them yourself?” [ABBE]<span> </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvqRzpNi7Df0kcMChEHHa-W9DnRKELb06mA6H41qhctfwaCuzhYkHa-iCa1E3Zeah0vxKjnIsYNXuoqzhkgP_hpIY3V5txShzWjnGyMeDr7bYbHKGE4eh8_nlNcr_SoDMsU4jt8kFiQBRMEJMTmahAFKE8qrndwliXlwEA-cfkuNK5WFdvtlCbR_G0qM0/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20225.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvqRzpNi7Df0kcMChEHHa-W9DnRKELb06mA6H41qhctfwaCuzhYkHa-iCa1E3Zeah0vxKjnIsYNXuoqzhkgP_hpIY3V5txShzWjnGyMeDr7bYbHKGE4eh8_nlNcr_SoDMsU4jt8kFiQBRMEJMTmahAFKE8qrndwliXlwEA-cfkuNK5WFdvtlCbR_G0qM0/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20225.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Have we ever questioned why Sherlock Holmes wrote monographs? After all, he was admittedly a specialist in his field, unique in all of police work:</div><div><blockquote><div>“That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,— or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.” [SIGN]</div></blockquote></div><div>He may have had a compunction to lay claim to being the first to identify and discuss various aspects of work related to crime detection. Ego is a powerful motivator. Or he may simply have been fascinated enough by a subject that he wished to explore as much of it as he could and commit it to writing.</div><div><br /></div><div>What resulted were monographs that we find littered throughout the Sherlock Holmes stories — topics as wide-ranging as <i>The Book of Life</i>, on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco, upon the tracing of footsteps, upon the influence of trade upon the form of a hand, upon the dating of documents, upon secret writings, two articles on the variability of human ears, and <i>Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations on the Segregation of the Queen</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>And that's not even a comprehensive list!</div><div><br /></div><div>We discussed this subject in full in <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles43" target="_blank">Episode 43 of <i>Trifles</i></a>. and you can listen here or <a href="https://pod.link/trifles/episode/ZTVjMTQ3MGU3NWIxNjhmYzZiZGRlMWQ2YmM2YmZhODI" target="_blank">wherever you get podcasts</a>.</div><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="2726" data-dashlane-rid="fe18429956a4b237" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5874895/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/3a4e59/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border-color: currentcolor; 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Baker Street Elementary – Monographically Speaking

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Baker Street Elementary – Easter Eggs

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“so trivial a matter as cooking an egg” [THOR]<span> </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVQU77Vs50q6EF73rykLwaExIWv563Od35tm5vogAB6lb0D9LYvzV4ryQALmcd3xn8yO4x-MZc5sLZaldypyCV5NkxnDLluaFPyhnWN9uMX6lI7BHQ5RtvIlhJBYFT78Abc6Egun66Oel889IiAZp4DMRhikI-4LGRznl1YH__d5AicxS8qEOIUBUha43/s1024/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20224.1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVQU77Vs50q6EF73rykLwaExIWv563Od35tm5vogAB6lb0D9LYvzV4ryQALmcd3xn8yO4x-MZc5sLZaldypyCV5NkxnDLluaFPyhnWN9uMX6lI7BHQ5RtvIlhJBYFT78Abc6Egun66Oel889IiAZp4DMRhikI-4LGRznl1YH__d5AicxS8qEOIUBUha43/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20224.1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br />One of the great bits of fun when planning a Sherlockian meeting is selecting the menu. The Canon is ripe with references to food and drink in many different settings. </div><div><br /></div><div>We're keenly aware of Mrs. Hudson's morning cuisine dependably being described as "as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotch-woman," and the rather curious dish that followed in that story.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's a fun assignment: at your next meeting, quiz your fellow Sherlockians on this: when it comes to that breakfast staple, the humble egg, which stories did it appear in? We'll give you the quotes, you supply the story. Answers are below.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. “But you have had enough of the case. Better have your ham and eggs first.”</div><div><br /></div><div>2. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal.</div><div><br /></div><div>3. “Good! What are you going to take, Mr. Phelps—curried fowl or eggs, or will you help yourself?”</div><div><br /></div><div>4. Sherlock Holmes swallowed a cup of coffee, and turned his attention to the ham and eggs. Then he rose, lit his pipe, and settled himself down into his</div><div>chair.</div><div><br /></div><div>5. “I must really apologize, Hopkins,” said Sherlock Holmes; “I fear that the scrambled eggs are cold. However, you will enjoy the rest of your breakfast all the better, will you not, for the thought that you have brought your case to a triumphant conclusion.”</div><div><br /></div><div>6. “There is little to share, but we may discuss it when you have consumed the two hard-boiled eggs with which our new cook has favoured us.”</div><div><br /></div><div>7. “Why, this article,” I said, pointing at it with my egg spoon as I sat down to my breakfast. “I see that you have read it since you have marked it.”</div><div><br /></div><div>8. “My dear Watson, when I have exterminated that fourth egg I shall be ready to put you in touch with the whole situation. I don’t say that we have fathomed it—far from it—but when we have traced the missing dumb-bell—”</div><div><br /></div><div>9. In the morning I was up betimes, but some toast crumbs and two empty egg-shells told me that my companion was earlier still.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Answers are below.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's see what Easter treats await at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij3ip7O35UvQQbvm2s8nCsj8TPPh2330OvlmiA6LPkZzuVCalxrT1k9MlAY8vVlbfD3NI-jc44rdZrWgCZxLx1b5ZH22mufxP-2BQpWhrmEtqya92mYNx_kaO9dHrt5S-H2en9zoJ3YGOTh_x3vatR0fU2VrHD8y0f8XCuNfvggk0Jjw0e_1c4NbiIXk6V/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20224.2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij3ip7O35UvQQbvm2s8nCsj8TPPh2330OvlmiA6LPkZzuVCalxrT1k9MlAY8vVlbfD3NI-jc44rdZrWgCZxLx1b5ZH22mufxP-2BQpWhrmEtqya92mYNx_kaO9dHrt5S-H2en9zoJ3YGOTh_x3vatR0fU2VrHD8y0f8XCuNfvggk0Jjw0e_1c4NbiIXk6V/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20224.2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhczFXBfRZ8OlNAGkX2zFDf1vUGXKGDHTUpC88KfNoVxbS4bryYNUnX-Y84grriITbC8_rbkSHv09WwwGaq97ajworrusfEcodzglnPouqASEnQ7V5PQ-k_N_rymYF8uwS8H4uOcDBZQDFkDMCFPddlNtUJksF4ID8tieM7wrJDTVqdXo6c_BDuHZrTcKBR/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20224.3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhczFXBfRZ8OlNAGkX2zFDf1vUGXKGDHTUpC88KfNoVxbS4bryYNUnX-Y84grriITbC8_rbkSHv09WwwGaq97ajworrusfEcodzglnPouqASEnQ7V5PQ-k_N_rymYF8uwS8H4uOcDBZQDFkDMCFPddlNtUJksF4ID8tieM7wrJDTVqdXo6c_BDuHZrTcKBR/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20224.3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Answers</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1. SIGN</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. ENGR</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. NAVA</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4. NAVA (again!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. BLAC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">6. THOR</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">7. STUD</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8. VALL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">9. RETI</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and <a class="b-tooltip-container" data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=John+Watson+Sherlock+Holmes&bbid=6321981775136876837&bpid=3408911776569555507" target="_blank"><span class="b-tooltip" style="display: none;"><iframe src="/share-widget?w=poi&o=t&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fved%3D1t%3A260882%26q%3DJohn%2BWatson%2BSherlock%2BHolmes%26bbid%3D6321981775136876837%26bpid%3D3408911776569555507"></iframe></span>John Watson</a>, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in <a class="b-tooltip-container" data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=Victorian+London&bbid=6321981775136876837&bpid=3408911776569555507" target="_blank"><span class="b-tooltip" style="display: none;"><iframe src="/share-widget?w=poi&o=t&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fved%3D1t%3A260882%26q%3DVictorian%2BLondon%26bbid%3D6321981775136876837%26bpid%3D3408911776569555507"></iframe></span>Victorian London</a>. 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