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Baker Street Elementary – Not Your Housekeeper

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“This fellow could speak English and did his housekeeping for him.” [WIST]<span>  </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp063cNat-JYwZFwvYMkfMrVpjsu7FQVAb2S-ErqwyGe9rC6dXcXlYrceDJT5t6tBOwerl57kgTMM33EE7kSR3W9tOmWR3fJdoxI3co5gFGmrSDET3p3oPJgS8idRn-q9glSJ8cE_ZcJZZOoBGo1gU9P1WU9dEko2DKzuS9nhCiwKOBhPVHbuJXWys1eQ8/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20237.1.JPG" 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/AVvXsEjp063cNat-JYwZFwvYMkfMrVpjsu7FQVAb2S-ErqwyGe9rC6dXcXlYrceDJT5t6tBOwerl57kgTMM33EE7kSR3W9tOmWR3fJdoxI3co5gFGmrSDET3p3oPJgS8idRn-q9glSJ8cE_ZcJZZOoBGo1gU9P1WU9dEko2DKzuS9nhCiwKOBhPVHbuJXWys1eQ8/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20237.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>One of the well-known phrases that came out of the 2010s series <i>Sherlock</i> was Mrs. Hudson's "Not your housekeeper, dear." She was intent on making it clear that her role was one of landlady, not helpmate.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the Canon, we of course get both. Mrs. Hudson as landlady, no doubt reassured by the rent ("<i>his payments </i><span><i>were princely</i>" — 'The Dying Detective') and housekeeper, who, as part of her duties, provided nourishment of a more than limited variety.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>While we might think of tidying up as the core role of a housekeeper, the fact is that meal preparation was also an important one. Lest we forget, Sherlock Holmes himself claims credit at being someone skilled in that area in <i>The Sign of Four</i>:  <blockquote><div>“Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines — Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper.”</div></blockquote><div>And when he planned a little cold supper for Robert St. Simon and the newly-wedded Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton in 'The Noble Bachelor,' he was no less selective:</div><div><div><blockquote>There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a <i>pâté de foie gras</i> pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles.</blockquote></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The spartan living on the moor <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles </i>("a loaf of bread, a tinned tongue, and two tins of preserved peaches") must have been a difficult sacrifice indeed for our epicurean housekeeper.</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div>Let's see what Mrs. Hudson is preparing at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – Not Your Housekeeper

“This fellow could speak English and did his housekeeping for him.” [WIST] One of the well-known phrases that came out of the 2010s serie...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Infinite Strangeness

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Not for worlds” [BLAC]<span> </span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYz2hwwM9L23fIbGMk6pxpXF_len-Acn8aPqltLS9c5g0MWk2J3X0eHSWgemnsaWrBf8FjtJaAQwubr8JNjcf_A-vXEQ0s_scTZEZriffmZPinU_lMJo_s2LEkn9IYXp-h4Ygc-6_DerKzQL4tp5GcHzLr1CBDUCUwhb5jceOlbWTBR3FHVpJj_zDFgx3h/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20236.1.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/AVvXsEiYz2hwwM9L23fIbGMk6pxpXF_len-Acn8aPqltLS9c5g0MWk2J3X0eHSWgemnsaWrBf8FjtJaAQwubr8JNjcf_A-vXEQ0s_scTZEZriffmZPinU_lMJo_s2LEkn9IYXp-h4Ygc-6_DerKzQL4tp5GcHzLr1CBDUCUwhb5jceOlbWTBR3FHVpJj_zDFgx3h/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20236.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Consider this: the Sherlock Holmes stories, even with their spectral hounds, severed ears, and dead bodies on railway tracks, are less an escape from life as we know it, than a reflection of it.</p><p style="text-align: left;">“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before, as Sherlock Holmes told Inspector Gregson in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>. While he was referring to the a specific case in the annals of crime history, the inference was clear: human nature is constant. </p><p style="text-align: left;">The crimes reported to us by Dr. Watson are by their very nature worthy of stories, but they indicate how common and similar humans are throughout time, driven by many of what are known as the Seven Deadly Sins: wrath, greed, pride, sloth, envy, gluttony, and lust. These core vices make up the basic physical, emotional, and mental needs of humans, as expressed in the extreme.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The way these vices are manifested in the stories may seem outrageous enough to readers, but they hold true enough to not be completely shocking. That is, they would be recognizable to anyone, in any land.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The older man who is trying to make himself more vigorous for his object of desire, the con man who concocts a story to make a willing dupe that much more pliable, the heartbroken lover who seeks revenge, a man of honor who kills to defend the woman he loves... these are all examples from the Canon that we can imagine happening in our world today.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Sherlock Holmes agreed on this point, and even expressed it similarly to Watson in "A Case of Identity":</p><div><div><blockquote>“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most <i>outré</i> results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”</blockquote></div><div> </div></div><div>Meanwhile, things are out of this world at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZV5ahr7cgaJpqz_xNF8fdNKMTfyZ8LrjNaOqazfpniB4mnINYXDQtGfBFQct-XUWwvx7-Sgrf2ZD1k4Fif4Y_W8DnqTgqVEXltexEdDcBnE7mXkmAspiWqkpdY1A_zNw0M4ocl8dyWoU5XK2IpJPGa7QGWkareSfI9H5Ntl3Ow7e98uuRzwoOp3LkId2F/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20236.2.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/AVvXsEjZV5ahr7cgaJpqz_xNF8fdNKMTfyZ8LrjNaOqazfpniB4mnINYXDQtGfBFQct-XUWwvx7-Sgrf2ZD1k4Fif4Y_W8DnqTgqVEXltexEdDcBnE7mXkmAspiWqkpdY1A_zNw0M4ocl8dyWoU5XK2IpJPGa7QGWkareSfI9H5Ntl3Ow7e98uuRzwoOp3LkId2F/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20236.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjin6ChvLpiz3XSOlkmEseMMZ7AyB5Y7tW0CEw-DS1LCyhEgALrxUfR2_aLpVzvWY_ID4aOdXupDfgJ3XswzoVvKgKZCeoDGHUCVt3NjnwbSGr0OwD0hIzgIEM5WdRdEJkS5ssikdkIoJKgliinN3N89m2M5OHetJQpgELhP10NtkaKoesVSJXRPOR7WACk/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20236.3.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/AVvXsEjin6ChvLpiz3XSOlkmEseMMZ7AyB5Y7tW0CEw-DS1LCyhEgALrxUfR2_aLpVzvWY_ID4aOdXupDfgJ3XswzoVvKgKZCeoDGHUCVt3NjnwbSGr0OwD0hIzgIEM5WdRdEJkS5ssikdkIoJKgliinN3N89m2M5OHetJQpgELhP10NtkaKoesVSJXRPOR7WACk/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20236.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH02Os72bZH_6e51FM_9aY7CPwzmV4gUjSMkJuMqJw7Zxn4DSmqONikbh4OHtwRzvB-q3Ko3_g2Am2VTHc53D895UzYEWrpdzZ3VSI4Iz3UQQWD3Stdb6paQ9w7Z9s6hA0qOuyvoSBa77mYcTyIhvKBimipP2AVbTJOcXr5F9eDt3UnYG-rSG49qtXc1rb/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20236.4.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/AVvXsEhH02Os72bZH_6e51FM_9aY7CPwzmV4gUjSMkJuMqJw7Zxn4DSmqONikbh4OHtwRzvB-q3Ko3_g2Am2VTHc53D895UzYEWrpdzZ3VSI4Iz3UQQWD3Stdb6paQ9w7Z9s6hA0qOuyvoSBa77mYcTyIhvKBimipP2AVbTJOcXr5F9eDt3UnYG-rSG49qtXc1rb/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20236.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></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></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>. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at the <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary website</a></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br />

Baker Street Elementary – Infinite Strangeness

“Not for worlds” [BLAC] Consider this: the Sherlock Holmes stories, even with their spectral hounds, severed ears, and dead bodies on rail...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Say Cheese

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“filled with photographs” [CHAS]<span> </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXEXyQPYE1LJ4tsFY9O2esQEvMUjw2lfqn0LCPpFj0jVWjkirlqi7ui6Udb9lU2cKmx_V4u2N2s56CJ8XRNSeL4Bn0h_hWZ8hwZuSwe8IQCqK01YOS64bIuG8XflDwvgXSIFm5rVXHCqldNPUzmv4azLoSzS5G7k4S0kX75esmTycZwsH5KvNnF7EIV_g/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20235.1.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/AVvXsEhIXEXyQPYE1LJ4tsFY9O2esQEvMUjw2lfqn0LCPpFj0jVWjkirlqi7ui6Udb9lU2cKmx_V4u2N2s56CJ8XRNSeL4Bn0h_hWZ8hwZuSwe8IQCqK01YOS64bIuG8XflDwvgXSIFm5rVXHCqldNPUzmv4azLoSzS5G7k4S0kX75esmTycZwsH5KvNnF7EIV_g/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20235.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></h4><div>Quick — name two canonical villains who claimed photography was a hobby of theirs.</div><div><br /></div><div>We'll hazard a guess that one came to you quite easily, but you may have had to struggle to think of the other.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you answered Vincent Spaulding, who kept darting into the basement of Jabez Wilson's pawnshop to develop his photos (why didn't Wilson ever ask to see those photos?) in "The Red-Headed League," you were correct.</div><div><br /></div><div>And if you also answered Jephro Rucastle, who in "The Copper Beeches," told Violent Hunter that the locked turret contained his dark room, you were also right.</div><div><br /></div><div>Two villains. One handy excuse to cover up activity they wanted well hidden.</div><div><br /></div><div>Photography was handy to Sherlock Holmes as well. In "The Second Stain," the identity of Eduardo Lucas and M. Henri Fournaye were determined to be one and the same through "a comparison of photographs."</div><div><br /></div><div>It was in this same story too that Watson discovered that Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope was much more impressive than her photographs:</div><div><blockquote><div>“I had often heard of the beauty of the youngest daughter of the Duke of Belminster, but no description of it, and no contemplation of colourless photographs, had prepared me for the subtle, delicate charm and the beautiful colouring of that exquisite head.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Let's not forget that it was Baron Gruner's "beastly book" that contained photographic evidence against him:</div><div><blockquote><div>“He had it all in that book. Snapshot photographs, names, details, everything about them.”</div></blockquote></div><div>For Sherlock Holmes, photography was much more useful than as a hobby. 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Baker Street Elementary – Say Cheese

“filled with photographs” [CHAS] Quick — name two canonical villains who claimed photography was a hobby of theirs. We'll hazard a gue...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – That's Life

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand” [VEIL]<span> </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhCpg-pmMsKoSoZzMDiv6TTVc46AISihq80MeZoPlCY68xKxA9mq5fAwn_5rPfArRD9UuBcpQF4_mj9xtWReEZjtsTgUDSuCzScUSTtlGPDZi9lzvuHDI6btj7hC_XMOtY363cPKIrtd8uCJ3r6l3FdjScqfgOmx47BReGxV8BazQmDjPudaZNhiRfRI/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20234.1.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/AVvXsEjOhCpg-pmMsKoSoZzMDiv6TTVc46AISihq80MeZoPlCY68xKxA9mq5fAwn_5rPfArRD9UuBcpQF4_mj9xtWReEZjtsTgUDSuCzScUSTtlGPDZi9lzvuHDI6btj7hC_XMOtY363cPKIrtd8uCJ3r6l3FdjScqfgOmx47BReGxV8BazQmDjPudaZNhiRfRI/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20234.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></h4><div>One of the most philosophical scenes in the Sherlock Holmes story takes place in "The Naval Treaty," when Holmes is reflecting on the existence of a higher power as he focuses on the natural beauty of a flower:</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“What a lovely thing a rose is!” </div><br /><div>He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. </div><br /><div>“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,” said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. “It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>It's probably made more vivid by the accompanying Sidney Paget illustration of Holmes admiring the moss-rose, with the caption "What a lovely thing a rose is."</div><div><br /></div><div>However, there is another scene in the Canon — a more obscure one — that finds Holmes equally philosophical, although about aging, death, and the results of the way a life is lived.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this case, we find Watson entering the sitting room at 221B Baker Street after Josiah Amberley made an exit in the opening of "The Retired Colourman." Holmes asks Watson his impression of the man, before pronouncing his view of life:</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“A pathetic, futile, broken creature.” </div><br /><div>“Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow—misery.”</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div>This is a far less hopeful (dare we say "rosy"?) outlook on the universe. It's at the other end of the tales that Watson has penned: "The Retired Colourman" is the final story in the <i>Strand</i>. Could it be that Holmes was in one of his "fits of the blackest depression" that Watson told us about in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>?</div><div><br /></div><div>Perhaps he was feeling the effects of a stinging defeat in a case or considering what he might be leaving behind as retirement loomed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Things are looking just as bleak at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQi57iFSCRDvuI4N8Z3IZE1wJMYLFTqjt0HVDfYyqRVRZ__AWZbY6X6qYMhgqKLt-R5Zbtpxbl9mOejOxTUVOJljt5JmMUusKFxrLB3Lgzh3rI8E0hb8w-aFzJqzrJBxspfZMB0IMs3GpXXQfaJGi08kC5doM4WBXfml1EsH-vJLqvmJB960t-krWPQE/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20234.2.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/AVvXsEgnQi57iFSCRDvuI4N8Z3IZE1wJMYLFTqjt0HVDfYyqRVRZ__AWZbY6X6qYMhgqKLt-R5Zbtpxbl9mOejOxTUVOJljt5JmMUusKFxrLB3Lgzh3rI8E0hb8w-aFzJqzrJBxspfZMB0IMs3GpXXQfaJGi08kC5doM4WBXfml1EsH-vJLqvmJB960t-krWPQE/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20234.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLZFOSynBMkj4sePK1FFUgVk6JITVRpt5ZFtGetTO9OxcQ_GLI14Qt72KPgSew-aAnq8Zoy9iMb1Ayu0PfSrcB-2_rIUIOso4qtlXKtGF1AO7gnQeSlajNDnasaRSCsEDQyIwOdynzTQ_G3QVKufLNOXBbWUgxyXTJdC0cooYauzU-lNMy2fJuZ6tyY8/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20234.3.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/AVvXsEhCLZFOSynBMkj4sePK1FFUgVk6JITVRpt5ZFtGetTO9OxcQ_GLI14Qt72KPgSew-aAnq8Zoy9iMb1Ayu0PfSrcB-2_rIUIOso4qtlXKtGF1AO7gnQeSlajNDnasaRSCsEDQyIwOdynzTQ_G3QVKufLNOXBbWUgxyXTJdC0cooYauzU-lNMy2fJuZ6tyY8/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20234.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUw8ctRFr4ztpzX9mOPIrMxReeteIvuocXiLEChemTSfexcM9tyhXSksjgWDiO7dAvHF0hHbE2h4VX15TWyIPtPPABhox2YTehCDHPEgRD3GjnpvkKnWN2mYVqni179jzDEcuyuCecpAh6HY1qrOvzoVP4aL9_DVhb6MifvOFPpv2H2OhR6u4-_-p08II/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20234.4.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/AVvXsEhUw8ctRFr4ztpzX9mOPIrMxReeteIvuocXiLEChemTSfexcM9tyhXSksjgWDiO7dAvHF0hHbE2h4VX15TWyIPtPPABhox2YTehCDHPEgRD3GjnpvkKnWN2mYVqni179jzDEcuyuCecpAh6HY1qrOvzoVP4aL9_DVhb6MifvOFPpv2H2OhR6u4-_-p08II/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20234.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></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></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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Baker Street Elementary – That's Life

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Baker Street Elementary – What Is It Good For?

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“then so prepare for war” [SECO]<span> </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGN_4QM4wFXAJr5Y66pFA3wzz_LyvjG6OdN4bVjBPPhJqXiwkAtSDH2LaiJAKdZsBMPjLgwK8RmkImOIoHIe8flUvKUcBqV6k9XYnyYIVwgDwUhdYCmWZRIZquHuvJCMMD2NA-qxARp7afcTe9KGAWe2dpydGt4Rq1hALjaIJ-GgXFhyphenhyphenuaqnvPgOcCV4/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20233.1.JPG" 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/AVvXsEgCGN_4QM4wFXAJr5Y66pFA3wzz_LyvjG6OdN4bVjBPPhJqXiwkAtSDH2LaiJAKdZsBMPjLgwK8RmkImOIoHIe8flUvKUcBqV6k9XYnyYIVwgDwUhdYCmWZRIZquHuvJCMMD2NA-qxARp7afcTe9KGAWe2dpydGt4Rq1hALjaIJ-GgXFhyphenhyphenuaqnvPgOcCV4/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20233.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></h4><div>General William Sherman once said, "War is hell." Partly because it's never-ending. In the mid- to late-20th century, historians Will and Ariel Durant estimated that over the past 3,421 years, humans experienced only about 268 scattered years without war.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the Sherlock Holmes stories, we open with war: Watson introduces himself to us in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i> as a veteran wounded at the Battle of Maiwand. In <i>The Sign of Four</i>, we find ourselves at the Fort of Agra during a rebellion. During another rebellion in "The Crooked Man," one officer betrays another out of jealous love. Soldiers and veterans turn up throughout the Canon. </div><div><br /></div><div>In fact, it extends to the final story (at least chronologically) in "His Last Bow," set on the very eve of the Great War in August 1914 — in which Holmes delivered his now-famous, almost prophetic line to Watson: </div><blockquote><div>"There's an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, and a good many of us may wither before its blast." </div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Other clients carry their own war histories: a Boer War veteran searching for a missing friend in "The Blanched Soldier," an admiral's son whose father commanded a fleet in the Crimean War in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," and a Confederate colonel from the American Civil War among the Openshaw family in "The Five Orange Pips," to name a few.</div><div><br /></div><div>War is always with us. As are its participants and after-effects. 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Baker Street Elementary – What Is It Good For?

“then so prepare for war” [SECO] General William Sherman once said, "War is hell." Partly because it's never-ending. In the ...

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Baker Street Elementary – Ghostbusters

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“this agency stands flat-footed upon the ground” [SUSS]<span> </span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfxmwmtMWy1LSCI_Ux_SGtHEO_n-uGEmzlMd5ZvsJP-tHJG-HiGYAwiMhjAMdefGIU2A16pOEq5Z2qNyzRqwfefBzCELX8y5Kss1Ok3lSbNiNksx7o3Pqxwcg4_jwWpluWp-faAVvT0aR3DYzV-9gnOGaSiCNxCpj7GCb32Uci8rwGaUvkrFYQf-hJ1UI/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20232.1.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/AVvXsEjvfxmwmtMWy1LSCI_Ux_SGtHEO_n-uGEmzlMd5ZvsJP-tHJG-HiGYAwiMhjAMdefGIU2A16pOEq5Z2qNyzRqwfefBzCELX8y5Kss1Ok3lSbNiNksx7o3Pqxwcg4_jwWpluWp-faAVvT0aR3DYzV-9gnOGaSiCNxCpj7GCb32Uci8rwGaUvkrFYQf-hJ1UI/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20232.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>One of the greatest ironies in literary history is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous logic-based human thinking machine in literature, was also a committed spiritualist — a devoted believer in being able to communicate with the dead.</div><div><br /></div><div>This belief spanned his writings, his public lectures, and even crept into the world of Sherlock Holmes after Conan Doyle's death: the 1939 production of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> was infused with a seance (which was decided <i>not </i>in the book about the so-called spectral hound).</div><div><br /></div><div>He was thorough in his belief; he wasn't trying to hoodwink anyone, nor was he naively accepting. His belief was a rational and deeply personal decision shaped by childhood religious conflict, scientific inquiry, and the theological tenets of the religion he grew up with (and was conflicted about). In fact, it famously led to the dissolution of his friendship with Harry Houdini when the latter (a committed hoax-buster) felt duped by a seance to communicate with his departed mother.</div><div><br /></div><div>Conan Doyle's writing on the topic included the novel <i><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3Dconan%2520doyle%26sts%3Dt%26tn%3Dland%2520of%2520mist%26ref_%3Dsearch_f_hp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Land of Mist</a></i>, numerous letters and articles, including "<a href="https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/wiki/The_Case_for_Spiritualism" target="_blank">The Case for Spiritualism</a>" in 1920. When one conducts a search at the Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia, it returns <a href="https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?search=spiritualism&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go" target="_blank">more than 700 entries for spiritualism</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the one item that requires additional attention is that of the seance that was held a week after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's death in July of 1930. Held at Royal Albert Hall, the president of the Marylebone Spiritualist Association (appropriately named "Craze") hosted the event at which Mrs. Estelle Roberts, a noted clairvoyant supposedly passed along a message to Lady Conan Doyle. Read all about it <a href="https://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/building-and-history/our-history/the-seance-of-conan-doyle" target="_blank">at the Royal Albert website</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's almost enough to make <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/08/conan-doyle-sues-own-estate-from-beyond.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conan Doyle sue his estate from beyond the grave</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div> Let's see who's getting spooked at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfmdXSi-13Sr34IMNq7uvMnaKYKXJbSsYrTvaQ2-JmDEy4VyJWJ071PUbZVKTGJvRsFFFFmIUWVopI6LnuHJSj7NH0qpRVhMJXJCvVUTDnILoe-aw4afsUZ3m_GfVDuJlWpa1W-D0RmW9tzTzX9CUpeJ5PZa5_N7fLHkYFKJ1BPp1nenMO4g6E6qWeWuX/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20232.2.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/AVvXsEhZfmdXSi-13Sr34IMNq7uvMnaKYKXJbSsYrTvaQ2-JmDEy4VyJWJ071PUbZVKTGJvRsFFFFmIUWVopI6LnuHJSj7NH0qpRVhMJXJCvVUTDnILoe-aw4afsUZ3m_GfVDuJlWpa1W-D0RmW9tzTzX9CUpeJ5PZa5_N7fLHkYFKJ1BPp1nenMO4g6E6qWeWuX/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20232.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gnwIo53xBm_rm9W8x4CWQ3zMxg3AhXgYHRzSuwujFbMS_4xfAKfze9TRLiZteRohboeSQLVrHySetK2EL0MPsJGBQK3CfYDDoLepqn1j1mtybhukfR977cB4lauFFY9ajx1ejRXidczFRCz5VGeEKVI9yY4HPCDeGQH0lIuqqX-_9fZJb4XnyZPxNnb-/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20232.3.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/AVvXsEi4gnwIo53xBm_rm9W8x4CWQ3zMxg3AhXgYHRzSuwujFbMS_4xfAKfze9TRLiZteRohboeSQLVrHySetK2EL0MPsJGBQK3CfYDDoLepqn1j1mtybhukfR977cB4lauFFY9ajx1ejRXidczFRCz5VGeEKVI9yY4HPCDeGQH0lIuqqX-_9fZJb4XnyZPxNnb-/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20232.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb6h1CuqY0Nm2xZAdv0uHE-e8-1_D0TuR-J1ax5O9naIwzTws8IzadScbZnOGQ0XqLgjgL2wEPGXFSgQaHO_LPJviarML0yvFfEM5eHW9EFQUJfjQ_vAT_lNVi3jg7h3UxhlzBy0QnQJ5x-vsKhyC7G2ewmTYxdCAn822OeD27uD0yaWJtltGD6e34RmTR/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20232.4.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/AVvXsEhb6h1CuqY0Nm2xZAdv0uHE-e8-1_D0TuR-J1ax5O9naIwzTws8IzadScbZnOGQ0XqLgjgL2wEPGXFSgQaHO_LPJviarML0yvFfEM5eHW9EFQUJfjQ_vAT_lNVi3jg7h3UxhlzBy0QnQJ5x-vsKhyC7G2ewmTYxdCAn822OeD27uD0yaWJtltGD6e34RmTR/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20232.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div></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></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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Baker Street Elementary – Ghostbusters

“this agency stands flat-footed upon the ground” [SUSS] One of the greatest ironies in literary history is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, cr...

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Baker Street Elementary – A Pitched Battle

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“half-sporting, half-intellectual pleasure” [CROO]<span> </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvngylwy8hAOQXvrlYlWLVTwj4CQd-s4j4rGuk64OLaiiiiL1A2L9X80_tVUYWQy1geUMD-GdX58Z5F8q7PZ8qhQcCw6rM6CImDJqxkUO9TM-d5bbyBDZynjO1cd8Mh6_W2b4dWS8MAwrpwyRIRyykyjQ_xhbnHjUH_h_wP2gBgJ1Mncw4KMznV408lzI/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20231.1.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/AVvXsEjvngylwy8hAOQXvrlYlWLVTwj4CQd-s4j4rGuk64OLaiiiiL1A2L9X80_tVUYWQy1geUMD-GdX58Z5F8q7PZ8qhQcCw6rM6CImDJqxkUO9TM-d5bbyBDZynjO1cd8Mh6_W2b4dWS8MAwrpwyRIRyykyjQ_xhbnHjUH_h_wP2gBgJ1Mncw4KMznV408lzI/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20231.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div>Of the prevailing number of topics we find in the Sherlock Holmes canon — from tobacco to food, the role of women to social hierarchy, weapons to money — we don't often find ourselves considering the world of sport.</div><div><br /></div><div>We do get a glimpse of sports every now and again; in the opening chapters of <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, Watson remarks on Holmes's physical abilities: he was noted to be "an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman." Notably, none of these is a team sport. All require the talents of a single participant, matched against one opponent.</div><div><br /></div><div>As far as team sports go, the Canon provides us very few glimpses, and they are quintessentially British. One —rugby — even lends one of its positions to the title of a story. "The Missing Three-Quarter" concerns the mysterious and sudden disappearance of one of Cambridge's varsity right-wingers. As we sprint through the rest of the stories, we find that Gilchrist played for the rugby team in "The Three Students," and that Watson played for Blackheath when Robert Ferguson played for Richmond in "The Sussex Vampire."</div><div><br /></div><div>For team sports originating in India, we have polo and cricket. Baron von Bork ("His Last Bow") is said to be a polo player who belongs to the Hurlingham Club. And a young Percy Phelps ("The Naval Treaty") was the victim of cricket bats over the shin and young Lord Saltire's cricket cap turned up ("The Priory School").</div><div><br /></div><div>But nowhere do we find a mention of association football (that's "soccer" for our American readers), despite England being the birthplace of the first official rules of the game in 1863. Indeed, there is a history of the game that goes back to the twelfth century in England, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that it rose in popularity.</div><div><br /></div><div>By 1871, there was a divide in the sport, with those in favor of "hacking" (that's carrying the ball) splintering off to form the Rugby Football Union. Then there was a further split of professional and amateur teams, leading to official recognition of professionalism by the Football Association in 1885.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>For a fun look at putting together a team, you might want to listen to <a href="https://pod.link/trifles/episode/MmZmZGMwYzYtMGI5MC00YzBhLWEwZGYtMTA1M2Q3ZmFiMDBm" target="_blank">Episode 270</a> of <i>Trifles</i>: "The Missing Three-Quarter One-Third Discovered" (Listen <a href="https://pod.link/trifles/episode/MmZmZGMwYzYtMGI5MC00YzBhLWEwZGYtMTA1M2Q3ZmFiMDBm" target="_blank">wherever you get podcasts</a>). And check out the the full <b>Games & Sports</b> collections on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/372702" target="_blank">Patreon</a> and <a href="https://trifles.substack.com/t/games-and-sports" target="_blank">Substack</a>.</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="6589" data-dashlane-rid="533c6bb8333aaae8" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/12529856/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; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: medium;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div> Let's see what the field looks like at Baker Street Elementary these days...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – A Pitched Battle

“half-sporting, half-intellectual pleasure” [CROO] Of the prevailing number of topics we find in the Sherlock Holmes canon — from tobacco ...

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Baker Street Elementary – FDS

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I thought you might care to see it” [SIGN]<span> </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ATdMG58AZtcV55bOpM3uXpjy06qO92mULxHUstDYTSLiGun_QrItYZRAgDmeN_6CMphIbNH70QyhWmZnCAsx2o6MIlj7PDTd9qRwFZ19LiKf3AOIT5yQ-MgcvTwUkYEVQH20lrNHVpopTJkaFCbQWOEbBFSZsXhBYHSQdBj9PDgN6PgHmBy179_hcB4/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20230.1.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/AVvXsEh4ATdMG58AZtcV55bOpM3uXpjy06qO92mULxHUstDYTSLiGun_QrItYZRAgDmeN_6CMphIbNH70QyhWmZnCAsx2o6MIlj7PDTd9qRwFZ19LiKf3AOIT5yQ-MgcvTwUkYEVQH20lrNHVpopTJkaFCbQWOEbBFSZsXhBYHSQdBj9PDgN6PgHmBy179_hcB4/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20230.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>From Hugo Baskerville’s portrait to the neighborhood of the Priory School, maps and drawings of all sorts were of great help to Sherlock Holmes. And they were just as important to Watson’s publishers. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>Strand Magazine </i>impractically wanted an illustration on every page. While Sidney Paget established Holmes’s look in the United Kingdom, dozens of American artists pictured him in wildly different ways before Frederic Dorr Steele picked up his pencil.</div><div><br /></div><div>A popular illustrator, Steele was the natural choice to create the iconic American image of Sherlock Holmes when the stories in <i>The Return</i> appeared in Collier’s Magazine in 1903.</div><div><br /></div><div>William Gillette’s play had been a triumph in 1899, and while the actor never modeled for Steele, he was his inspiration. Steele captured Holmes’s charisma, his presence, his confidence, and he created the portrait that's inspired every drawing, movie, and cartoon that followed.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can find out more about Steele and see some of his work at <a href="https://fdsteele.org">fdsteele.org</a>, the website of the <a href="https://fdsteele.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Frederic Dorr Steele Memorial</a>. </div></div><div><br /></div><div> But now, let's see if young Freddy is breaking any crayons at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-f8Ta-B9TMb3CKuVL5ohLRqRoSpgVTcCbfXw1EX248n4jrKmpePxUrT6b9M_qWyAnf_UCzVmNBSGWZLrIOGzTeu9Z8cVAh5m6OIHbYYVv6lg012u7as7oNKqsegaIbkdyJQ-vlAS3pvxYjV1gICMJQ301CDEwB2NasC_nOncuSks1IKFk57UU0uayImI/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20230.2.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/AVvXsEg-f8Ta-B9TMb3CKuVL5ohLRqRoSpgVTcCbfXw1EX248n4jrKmpePxUrT6b9M_qWyAnf_UCzVmNBSGWZLrIOGzTeu9Z8cVAh5m6OIHbYYVv6lg012u7as7oNKqsegaIbkdyJQ-vlAS3pvxYjV1gICMJQ301CDEwB2NasC_nOncuSks1IKFk57UU0uayImI/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20230.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – Allow Me To Bring This To Your Attention

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“When I draw your attention” [REIG]<span> </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmIHcELgQInJitNXmDC5e6iT-48axfcjbcVnfV_evWZJpPWbdpQTrccPnUpdR728Ey4pD7zYLlUmZq6-yeN-e3rpaN3McEzmBDFDdpTNS5sCEj70ZrAoyYDt-RJv9mB7EGl4lftN8ajgZMoGObhNDcbBqhVxL_5ABRFTqv8mFZ6ZOqFYAuHj4rS3yn25E/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20229.1.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/AVvXsEhmIHcELgQInJitNXmDC5e6iT-48axfcjbcVnfV_evWZJpPWbdpQTrccPnUpdR728Ey4pD7zYLlUmZq6-yeN-e3rpaN3McEzmBDFDdpTNS5sCEj70ZrAoyYDt-RJv9mB7EGl4lftN8ajgZMoGObhNDcbBqhVxL_5ABRFTqv8mFZ6ZOqFYAuHj4rS3yn25E/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20229.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>Dr. Watson's role was much more than Sherlock Holmes's friend, colleague, and sometime-flatmate. Writ large, he was a front-man — Holmes's publicist, bringing to life <span style="text-align: center;">“</span>those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.” [EMPT]</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Considering that Watson was his own man, with his own practice, and just as widely known as his detective friend, it may seem odd that Watson didn't bring more cases to Holmes's attention. Certainly, fan mail and client visits would naturally gravitate to 221B Baker Street. But shouldn't Watson's notoriety afford him more occasions to make some referrals to Holmes?</div><div><br /></div><div>The number of cases in which he did is surprisingly low.</div><div><br /></div><div>In "The Engineer's Thumb," Watson admits that <span style="text-align: center;">“</span>there were only two which I was the means of introducing” a new case to Sherlock Holmes: that story and an unpublished one (Colonel Warburton's madness).</div></div><div><br /></div><div>But there is one other...</div><div><br /></div><div>An old school associate by the name of Percy "Tadpole" Phelps wrote to Watson asking him to bring Sherlock Holmes down to Woking to hear the case that Watson ultimately wrote up as "The Naval Treaty."</div><div><br /></div><div>So there we have it. Watson introduced two of the 60 cases to Holmes, and one unpublished case (that we know of). </div><div><br /></div><div>Let's see if they're teaching common sense at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxoMHINDgucPJfx5JUMKOCe3u5_iAeEivreCSmE7fgp6U6WlyVxuzyG-XbBlQqc9RkapKheCOhvJMPuaoRxjZcMtKU0FO6uQ_hCpKyzdvkdW-flZC6AJav0fn-1DoW-9LcA8lxHvC6MSkySRSMbgFW6LuYcIiXQsfOwi3BfFH89piPQRh9M-xxli3EwI/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20229.2.JPG" 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/AVvXsEgbxoMHINDgucPJfx5JUMKOCe3u5_iAeEivreCSmE7fgp6U6WlyVxuzyG-XbBlQqc9RkapKheCOhvJMPuaoRxjZcMtKU0FO6uQ_hCpKyzdvkdW-flZC6AJav0fn-1DoW-9LcA8lxHvC6MSkySRSMbgFW6LuYcIiXQsfOwi3BfFH89piPQRh9M-xxli3EwI/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20229.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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