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Baker Street Elementary – Look on the Bright Side

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“we have much to hope” [NAVA] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR4cE_dKRI9fvTxmfuz0XXUiDF1ByK7dnViwfSdQVTRAmCov0S9Du9ccLK5nky1_f1jbuaC3ShP5Q6uBVOUmWX1ewpjWksEz2G-l0847HChrV85gqT_3V0zwl-RC2HaVQ-fGhOBQnvJsdbDItUhGQ-93_-XHo1c0RYSrXHMLNR7QvfKzPL2DyeQU-zrAEf/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20189.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR4cE_dKRI9fvTxmfuz0XXUiDF1ByK7dnViwfSdQVTRAmCov0S9Du9ccLK5nky1_f1jbuaC3ShP5Q6uBVOUmWX1ewpjWksEz2G-l0847HChrV85gqT_3V0zwl-RC2HaVQ-fGhOBQnvJsdbDItUhGQ-93_-XHo1c0RYSrXHMLNR7QvfKzPL2DyeQU-zrAEf/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20189.1.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Why did Sherlock Holmes have clients? Because invariably, people found themselves in unfortunate circumstances and they needed help. Oftentimes, the sentiment was “<i>I come to you as a last resource</i>,” as Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope explained.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">How appropriate was her surname? By the end of the story, Holmes located the document, saving the career of the cabinet secretary and restoring hope in his wife.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Most cases begin with a severe sense of hopelessness or pessimism, Clients arrive, convinced that there is only one man in all of England who can help, as they dolefully present their woeful problems. And yet, the Sherlock Holmes stories are filled with hope and optimism.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In "The Bruce-Partington Plans," for example, there is more at stake than the missing plans of a submarine. Violet Westbury, fiancée of the dead suspect Arthur Cadogan West, implore Sherlock Holmes, </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Oh, Mr. Holmes, if you could only, only save his honour! It was so much to him.”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And in clearing up the mystery, Holmes provides comfort for those involved, as he does in so many other cases.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Finding the treasure (although losing it in the Thames) in <i>The Sign of Four</i>, he brings closure for Mary Morstan and a marital prospect for Dr. Watson. Holmes is able to vanquish the family curse in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, leaving the young baronet to make a life for himself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here are just a handful of examples of optimism: Henry Baker's hat and goose are restored and James Ryder is given a second chance [BLUE]; a terrible secret is exposed and a young family reconnected [YELL]; the shame and fear of a son's illness are wiped away with an alternative diagnosis [BLAN]; a problem child is exiled and there is a chance to repair a failed marriage [PRIO]; we could even make the case that an inherited medical practice following a murder means rosier times ahead for the physician [RESI].</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Was Sherlock Holmes a pessimist or an optimist? Some might call him a realist. But, capitalizing on the misfortunes of others, maybe he was more of an opportunist. An opportunist who provided promising paths forward for his clients.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The very <a href="https://episodes.fm/1198869691/episode/ZDc2MjM1ZTExYTk2ZWFhYWI1Y2RlMWFjNzk2YTRlNWQ" target="_blank">first episode</a> of <i><a href="https://episodes.fm/1198869691" target="_blank">Trifles</a></i> looked at how common the hopeful was in the Canon:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write" frameborder="0" height="175" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" src="https://embed.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-optimism/id1198869691?i=1000380380055" style="border-radius: 10px; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Meanwhile, let's see what the imaginative minds at Baker Street Elementary think about pessimism versus optimism...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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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 John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><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><br /><br /><br /><br />

Baker Street Elementary – Look on the Bright Side

“we have much to hope” [NAVA] Why did Sherlock Holmes have clients? Because invariably, people found themselves in unfortunate circumstance...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Trust Buster

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“You really are an automaton,—a calculating machine!” [SIGN] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrR3-_-DsrhdWbX4lYIUibrRyUKaSAFrA0E9t9l-MrZhiqHw9H2-Kxypnh-ZfcsPqM-VKWmfR3K8WEQhbMLenxygZuqNPX0eC6WRORBXz76zkcSY4tjFztq1Sgqtnm2Wt_moVRZfdz5tNbKeJJc-MnrbWA_JEHOQzE26ZoNqdK9K8kwDcPyScXrPtQlNGi/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20188.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrR3-_-DsrhdWbX4lYIUibrRyUKaSAFrA0E9t9l-MrZhiqHw9H2-Kxypnh-ZfcsPqM-VKWmfR3K8WEQhbMLenxygZuqNPX0eC6WRORBXz76zkcSY4tjFztq1Sgqtnm2Wt_moVRZfdz5tNbKeJJc-MnrbWA_JEHOQzE26ZoNqdK9K8kwDcPyScXrPtQlNGi/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20188.1.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To say Sherlock Holmes had trust issues would be an understatement.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He admitted to Watson that he was unable to enjoy the typical innocent observation of the world around him in "The Copper Beeches":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Do you know, Watson,” said he, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Consider how this might affect how he inherently trusts other people. In his earliest cases—from his university days—he discovered that those closest to us might betray our trust.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In "The <i>Gloria Scott</i>," Trevor Senior is taken gross advantage of by Hudson, one of his former shipmates, which ultimately leads to Trevor's stress-induced death. And in "The Musgrave Ritual," Brunton, the long-time butler of Hurlstone, betrayed his employer's trust to go treasure-hunting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So, years later, when Holmes was speaking to Watson in <i>The Sign of Four</i>, noting “Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them,” we shouldn't be terribly surprised. Especially when Holmes backs up his claim with his previous experience: </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money.”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Is Sherlock Holmes's cynicism and deep distrust any surprise? Perhaps he had even deeper experience in his days at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5MbkZmzmqlx9M6to2oDFkiJl6dxi_Euht3oPxxYJYL1hrU-JLWMv3ku3GKWtaHpH2LHrHMx0D_KMcpU2KXEkif38Bb-iAlIPGkPLrpCCPPkOyPr_8n9pwBH8MPen5drSjC94nhojDLQZMhWCzDqIthlxqLRf8q5AKaqTi3Y4lxoseScUp1SWisoITU6n0/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20188.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5MbkZmzmqlx9M6to2oDFkiJl6dxi_Euht3oPxxYJYL1hrU-JLWMv3ku3GKWtaHpH2LHrHMx0D_KMcpU2KXEkif38Bb-iAlIPGkPLrpCCPPkOyPr_8n9pwBH8MPen5drSjC94nhojDLQZMhWCzDqIthlxqLRf8q5AKaqTi3Y4lxoseScUp1SWisoITU6n0/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20188.2.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlDDMQF2IO3oxvQUX8nhkqdrq0B9kXF-AD6yzD674i0IC1zARGTt_j_POvQ8HPCvHGKUXLhAPpSMbajI231_M0OY4wDxwWBr-IyzIRi14HxVAttuNoKlxXmRcYm4hRFOhkb6g4oGuFFBFPP5le4AasJPZ_C-Xel7ChTUF5sQTvhdvPPVk9FKgKsDMoFg_/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20188.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlDDMQF2IO3oxvQUX8nhkqdrq0B9kXF-AD6yzD674i0IC1zARGTt_j_POvQ8HPCvHGKUXLhAPpSMbajI231_M0OY4wDxwWBr-IyzIRi14HxVAttuNoKlxXmRcYm4hRFOhkb6g4oGuFFBFPP5le4AasJPZ_C-Xel7ChTUF5sQTvhdvPPVk9FKgKsDMoFg_/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20188.3.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></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 John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><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><br /><br /><br />

Baker Street Elementary – Trust Buster

“You really are an automaton,—a calculating machine!” [SIGN] To say Sherlock Holmes had trust issues would be an understatement. He admitte...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Getting Schooled

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“He was not studying medicine.” [STUD] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5czvzbooFfisM86PRMbWcPoC1J0gMvVAQNAG7GYfKyBvwiNa6i4UK9SoFhGHhgyTvW-_6RmmDtCFNc5AmLeLaq-EjaxZYpAHpBv03-Jl8mL_-mOkGEsO8UPeOSjLoJwaiFhyx3q_QBBUJRbt0NkaTxFMPBRHeezqZ3_EDrWPkTPoYFXaZn3mn5LRiSsy3/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20187.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5czvzbooFfisM86PRMbWcPoC1J0gMvVAQNAG7GYfKyBvwiNa6i4UK9SoFhGHhgyTvW-_6RmmDtCFNc5AmLeLaq-EjaxZYpAHpBv03-Jl8mL_-mOkGEsO8UPeOSjLoJwaiFhyx3q_QBBUJRbt0NkaTxFMPBRHeezqZ3_EDrWPkTPoYFXaZn3mn5LRiSsy3/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20187.1.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">From the very beginning of their association, we know that Sherlock Holmes was good at science-related topics, thanks to Dr. Watson's list "<i>Sherlock Holmes</i>—his limits."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But upon preparing to meet him for the first time, after young Stamford talked him up as "an enthusiast in some branches of science," it was only natural for Watson to ask: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“A medical student, I suppose?” said I.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“No—I have no idea what he intends to go in for. I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes. His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the way knowledge which would astonish his professors.”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">From the very beginning, we were meant to believe that Sherlock Holmes was an expert chemist. But this was only judged as such by Stamford, who had a limited knowledge as a dresser; and by Watson, who only had enough knowledge of chemistry as any medical man of the time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Holmes's demonstrations of his chemical expertise may have impressed amateurs, but it's just possible that true experts may have responded as Watson did later in that same story:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Brag and bounce!” thought I to myself. “He knows that I cannot verify his guess.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For more on this topic, as explored by Sherlockian chemist Remsen Ten Eyck Schenck in a 1952 issue of <i>The Baker Street Journal</i>, listen to <a href="https://episodes.fm/1198869691/episode/ZGIxMGNkOWItOTVhOS00N2Y4LTk1YTYtMWMyZmUwMDA5OTY3" target="_blank"><i>Trifles</i> Episode 403: Baker Street Fables</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="6961" data-dashlane-rid="96c37833ef45d921" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/33118377/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/de7b0f/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, let's see where careers are headed at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – Getting Schooled

“He was not studying medicine.” [STUD] From the very beginning of their association, we know that Sherlock Holmes was good at science-relat...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Feeble

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“on to other topics” [NAVA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXKIuPYDEfN0Szv_hhXQk7ytP_1cFf9oKGls9i9ukqcTFC30qde35TSy7nSJcNO0ynRaLI1doTfOgTNGWoj2aITDvfB1zF4knjgMFW7051Sa9z1jHz0e0snnd3KEeIZBKPMAZWDwn_y-cR0VSnu3AahxUz0wbYYBRRDzNlZJtHYXYFOTpcWvbl_OwGAIA/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20186.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXKIuPYDEfN0Szv_hhXQk7ytP_1cFf9oKGls9i9ukqcTFC30qde35TSy7nSJcNO0ynRaLI1doTfOgTNGWoj2aITDvfB1zF4knjgMFW7051Sa9z1jHz0e0snnd3KEeIZBKPMAZWDwn_y-cR0VSnu3AahxUz0wbYYBRRDzNlZJtHYXYFOTpcWvbl_OwGAIA/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20186.1.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We're often told to avoid talking about politics and religion in certain settings. Sherlock Holmes didn't spend much time on those topics either, aside from representing the government in a handful of cases, handling a case for the pope, having a rusty memory of the Old Testament, and one well-known reverie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But there was one story in which Sherlock Holmes dealt with both politics <b><i>and</i></b> religion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In "The Naval Treaty," Holmes was engaged by Percy Phelps, who had a position at the Foreign Office, thanks to his uncle, Lord Holdhurst. On Phelps's watch, a treaty between England and Italy that defined the Triple Alliance, went missing. While it was a matter of personal and professional interest to Phelps, there were political implications if the treaty were put on the open market. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In that very same story one of the most beautiful passages in the Canon has Sherlock Holmes contemplating a rose and the creator:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,” said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. “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 gain that we have much to hope from the flowers.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Is it any coincidence that we find religion being contemplated in the same story as politics?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Let's see how they handle it at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJE7GUavqmRqyFPRAiEjRmtrlw96ivAwYoMu8VjtDRhKat9ra3oGUKKfxuanuwIyQPURnENWcLXrpKSTyfDrDNQPoL4r_DN6LUUQ4Bt8RE33u2f_q3g59hBS8hRLIROSsW-acLCs6Ei8JHf94mmaYpelgJ1Tm59Dhlk7N9l1V_k-zbbmf7Bn7POt7s-p3G/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20186.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJE7GUavqmRqyFPRAiEjRmtrlw96ivAwYoMu8VjtDRhKat9ra3oGUKKfxuanuwIyQPURnENWcLXrpKSTyfDrDNQPoL4r_DN6LUUQ4Bt8RE33u2f_q3g59hBS8hRLIROSsW-acLCs6Ei8JHf94mmaYpelgJ1Tm59Dhlk7N9l1V_k-zbbmf7Bn7POt7s-p3G/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20186.2.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9e5w9pK0vr9dnAMcSR3KrqwHN2xkVujZMAeh7tOZcOez-AeEj7UZar8FHLbAoi8u73v5NT9oNqsCxpEZbRMdt0JxRyk22QQbeoadmPCL2RtfJs4mxmI1Cs_7TIidv8Kyee8Z5_5SkXnYDqEBAcA-qOt0JkGbbQ70O0PVyLkl7ZvLLd2DizgwpAbYYLJSm/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20186.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9e5w9pK0vr9dnAMcSR3KrqwHN2xkVujZMAeh7tOZcOez-AeEj7UZar8FHLbAoi8u73v5NT9oNqsCxpEZbRMdt0JxRyk22QQbeoadmPCL2RtfJs4mxmI1Cs_7TIidv8Kyee8Z5_5SkXnYDqEBAcA-qOt0JkGbbQ70O0PVyLkl7ZvLLd2DizgwpAbYYLJSm/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20186.3.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkNZGbJ_nBW6sLbXBxcCIB3lHfevOlfvwFdxQU4LgaLxAY2-ySeQ1rMZ7X8wB2XjLSs__F0RUS94PhO-kmLDnv1y9q-ot6F7Z6Cu9cqEl1pKZZqrf0fPlUAbe_iBxPYonHd_lrGADxy0eJ-N_d_KU5eFXZXTl4z0pZO-VGJftbqXw6sjTaEzv_o7SOuXF/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20186.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkNZGbJ_nBW6sLbXBxcCIB3lHfevOlfvwFdxQU4LgaLxAY2-ySeQ1rMZ7X8wB2XjLSs__F0RUS94PhO-kmLDnv1y9q-ot6F7Z6Cu9cqEl1pKZZqrf0fPlUAbe_iBxPYonHd_lrGADxy0eJ-N_d_KU5eFXZXTl4z0pZO-VGJftbqXw6sjTaEzv_o7SOuXF/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20186.4.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></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 John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><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><br /><br /><br />

Baker Street Elementary – Feeble

“on to other topics” [NAVA] We're often told to avoid talking about politics and religion in certain settings. Sherlock Holmes didn...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – King Me

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the folly of a monarch” [NOBL] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAELQSDBGtltpmG4f5m2ArJC7gvG-4heJXh6NJ8mrlCHDOw6iq1ugh1EVnRsUimcSmP25UcLc2AsjnimL25Mfu7OX5N0FBiz_tG3e5BY1EQ5_jNS0C37LJWMIPu31UWAc23dywy6PXeiwuCthYbw2_jTaTpEOrq54VmLn2UwIJq0P8SlaOrBtPfTzjZJHo/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20185.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAELQSDBGtltpmG4f5m2ArJC7gvG-4heJXh6NJ8mrlCHDOw6iq1ugh1EVnRsUimcSmP25UcLc2AsjnimL25Mfu7OX5N0FBiz_tG3e5BY1EQ5_jNS0C37LJWMIPu31UWAc23dywy6PXeiwuCthYbw2_jTaTpEOrq54VmLn2UwIJq0P8SlaOrBtPfTzjZJHo/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20185.1.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Aside from "a certain gracious lady" who gifted Sherlock Holmes an emerald tie-pin at Windsor one afternoon, we don't think of British royalty very often in the Sherlock Holmes stories.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And yet, there are at least a dozen references to British monarchs hidden throughout the 60 stories. Some are quite obvious, but others are oblique and even obscure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">How many can you name?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For a rundown of exactly how many there are and in which stories they appear, listen to <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles298" target="_blank">Episode 298 of Trifles</a>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="526" data-dashlane-rid="1f031779187ea878" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24376128/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/d41d1f/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And for goodness sake, pay attention in class at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><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><br /><br />

Baker Street Elementary – King Me

“the folly of a monarch” [NOBL] Aside from "a certain gracious lady" who gifted Sherlock Holmes an emerald tie-pin at Windsor one...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Steele True

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“striking illustration” [ILLU] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1pGuh3kBs_pAxvbDpCOuLkOiiK150pJxClNqoePxIIcoIdc2zUDvKW2pdIRN8GNEMhF0Cyda4TWstzGwXjaWvxahzXIUBEID0n1QHZB4hiBptJeNU5njMMDouwLkeUGQKlyz2Qfj8D0y_keMig7MiWUZnh7tYD_-HZvWUEpdGdqZMMEdYE_ScMoOTyyFn/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20184.1.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1pGuh3kBs_pAxvbDpCOuLkOiiK150pJxClNqoePxIIcoIdc2zUDvKW2pdIRN8GNEMhF0Cyda4TWstzGwXjaWvxahzXIUBEID0n1QHZB4hiBptJeNU5njMMDouwLkeUGQKlyz2Qfj8D0y_keMig7MiWUZnh7tYD_-HZvWUEpdGdqZMMEdYE_ScMoOTyyFn/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20184.1.PNG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><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;">Arthur Conan Doyle made Sherlock Holmes famous in various periodicals and eventually books. But it was Holmes's illustrators who put flesh on the bones and gave us the distinctive image that we know today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One of these artists was Frederic Dorr Steele, whose illustrations graced the covers and interior of <i>Collier's</i> in the early 1900s. Steele's Holmes was reminiscent of William Gillette, who first portrayed Holmes on stage in 1899 and went on to make more than 3,000 appearances as Holmes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So for American readers, Steele's illustrations helped Holmes go from image to icon. At the recent Norwegian Explorers conference (Sherlock Holmes @ 50), our own Burt Wolder gave a presentation on Steele's artwork.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And for those interested in a deeper discussion, Linda and Terry Hunt and Andrew Malec appeared on <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose204" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 204</a> to talk about Steele:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="17370" data-dashlane-rid="5e4bbf0cad99742b" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="//play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/16817147/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/d4ac7c/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Let's see what the satellite school of Baker Street Elementary thought about him...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv5mYNBmDnlxKrvfT3vDpL5YxtLjS6R9xYOPJGPS4jnYssAN2vfYDDLYvs2IyL6-u1Kq1bhyMnuy124i5JC3QjMKtnMzohFNk_v0BFP_g0BMw14_f5hohyphenhyphenXG8dN_yDYk6ZfKaRxluZcwvldrzJwWnIfViVfxLvvI4npCw2oTuXT726yJUNouQc0CHIQuAd/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20184.2.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv5mYNBmDnlxKrvfT3vDpL5YxtLjS6R9xYOPJGPS4jnYssAN2vfYDDLYvs2IyL6-u1Kq1bhyMnuy124i5JC3QjMKtnMzohFNk_v0BFP_g0BMw14_f5hohyphenhyphenXG8dN_yDYk6ZfKaRxluZcwvldrzJwWnIfViVfxLvvI4npCw2oTuXT726yJUNouQc0CHIQuAd/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20184.2.PNG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbyJ2DgRmQ5QPGVeyUV9clmhm0D89O-VEFG044_Mk1RDcEnWcBB1JC_oSe7x0cjE2d1RBgTs27UsDklRabTHOv8Eqe472Tc7JdER5cuzqO0YdxeiA8K6TGV0rgp4Mg7S4NP0y_71pJqY7zQqNcVsGBI87LGFaUKJa_B189hRVJHugY2jU7hKNZom9kq4h/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20184.3.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbyJ2DgRmQ5QPGVeyUV9clmhm0D89O-VEFG044_Mk1RDcEnWcBB1JC_oSe7x0cjE2d1RBgTs27UsDklRabTHOv8Eqe472Tc7JdER5cuzqO0YdxeiA8K6TGV0rgp4Mg7S4NP0y_71pJqY7zQqNcVsGBI87LGFaUKJa_B189hRVJHugY2jU7hKNZom9kq4h/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20184.3.PNG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_JXMbgZZc8tv0PZj1nTis8tv0lfZ435K1kKLcp4lZn7mXInKX90hBU9iA340l561sERBdmjDeu16mCJko63Dqb3b_idU0khZiPH7m75Qk6xhy3b3l_lTnMD7zQ2OHtdxI3UhsfIeveibJy3tqvBzY6cvW3CkrfkNaaMjBwJAxKnhlXMU4RXhb0qS0FhW6/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20184.4.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_JXMbgZZc8tv0PZj1nTis8tv0lfZ435K1kKLcp4lZn7mXInKX90hBU9iA340l561sERBdmjDeu16mCJko63Dqb3b_idU0khZiPH7m75Qk6xhy3b3l_lTnMD7zQ2OHtdxI3UhsfIeveibJy3tqvBzY6cvW3CkrfkNaaMjBwJAxKnhlXMU4RXhb0qS0FhW6/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20184.4.PNG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></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 John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><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><br />

Baker Street Elementary – Steele True

“striking illustration” [ILLU] Arthur Conan Doyle made Sherlock Holmes famous in various periodicals and eventually books. But it was Holme...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – How Low Can You Go?

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“And so under” [MUSG] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkZdLD8OLgZnsmuj4tKy_iPAiJvUrpBzDjU89pYGI2VQQ9nv9IScx9fSGTB2lbfM0T6gVcKi34AY3Br5AAhnyGHGffFo7zaIS-aOLCM2YQb_79d4NPrVqbiSu7kDkK-Ts4pZt22BIszlPjDF1cYV1hyphenhyphen4ofPWjdkF4ozbwxAUU8iSsn-wLKWkXWo4X8Vf9/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20183.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkZdLD8OLgZnsmuj4tKy_iPAiJvUrpBzDjU89pYGI2VQQ9nv9IScx9fSGTB2lbfM0T6gVcKi34AY3Br5AAhnyGHGffFo7zaIS-aOLCM2YQb_79d4NPrVqbiSu7kDkK-Ts4pZt22BIszlPjDF1cYV1hyphenhyphen4ofPWjdkF4ozbwxAUU8iSsn-wLKWkXWo4X8Vf9/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20183.1.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><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;">One of the side-benefits of reading the Sherlock Holmes stories is we have the opportunity to educate ourselves on terminology that is almost comprehensible. That is, words or phrases that might seem odd yet vaguely familiar.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For instance, when Watson needs to educate himself on the finer points of Chinese pottery in "The Illustrious Client," he tells us</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I drove to the London Library in St. James’s Square, put the matter to my friend Lomax, the sub-librarian, and departed to my rooms with a goodly volume under my arm.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lest you think that a sublibrarian is a person of letters attending to the reading needs of those in the navy, the matter is made clear to us via Donald Redmond in <i>A Study in Sources</i>:</div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“A sub-librarian in English parlance is the deputy head, in fact the active operating head of a library... [The London Library] was then one of the few major libraries where a member could ask the staff a question such as Watson's and receive the immediate, thorough assistance he did.”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So that means when we hear of "Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty’s navy" in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, he was a deputy lieutenant. 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Baker Street Elementary – How Low Can You Go?

“And so under” [MUSG] One of the side-benefits of reading the Sherlock Holmes stories is we have the opportunity to educate ourselves on te...

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Baker Street Elementary – The Wizarding World of Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“as if by magic” [REDC] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjh209mriQtU8ljN-2vzMJAdlZn_X8kJI-_2QaYQy0qjR6-rkLffx-hS9ByNJ7Dh_fNC15VcdcLI5JeJWv455Fh645B4WxssnQLQePqNOLdyuaPoD4SiXl2subCfZ5IxDXjugD2CSKd7KT6KC-l69n_tsASBFcYfwg1JabtMgfRDFnJwSxDrMsa6V74DLm/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjh209mriQtU8ljN-2vzMJAdlZn_X8kJI-_2QaYQy0qjR6-rkLffx-hS9ByNJ7Dh_fNC15VcdcLI5JeJWv455Fh645B4WxssnQLQePqNOLdyuaPoD4SiXl2subCfZ5IxDXjugD2CSKd7KT6KC-l69n_tsASBFcYfwg1JabtMgfRDFnJwSxDrMsa6V74DLm/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.1.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sherlock Holmes appeared to have other-worldly powers to some people in his orbit. It's not that he was employing black magic or supernatural powers; he simply was skilled beyond the means of common folk of his time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Their shock and surprise were evident, as they expressed their astonishment by comparing him to wizard. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Inspector Stanley Hopkins expressed belief that Holmes was a wizard, adding,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I really do sometimes think that you have powers that are not human.” [ABBE]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When the Right Honorable Trelawney Hope discovered the lost document thanks to Holmes, he declared him “a wizard, a sorcerer!” [SECO]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">James Dodd expressed surprise with Holmes's deductions: “Mr. Holmes, you are a wizard.” [BLAN]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And Watson himself exclaimed “Holmes, you are a wizard,” when Holmes mentioned grey-tinted glasses. [RETI]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But there were other realizations of Holmes's powers that didn't go quite as far as calling him a wizard. Mary Holder said, “Why, you are like a magician,” [BERY] and Mrs. Ferguson admitted that Holmes “seems to have powers of magic.”</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As any good magician knows, part of the secret is keeping people in disbelief. When the veil was lifted by Holmes explaining how he deduced Jabez Wilson's background, Wilson blurted out: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Well, I never! I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all.” [REDH]</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Leading Holmes to acknowledge “that I make a mistake in explaining. ‘<i>Omne ignotum pro magnifico</i>,’ you know.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Now let's see what magical experiences the boys are having at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fWYCnA8OrChdIGJlRzTcplq70g0AYqkU6bnUr2O8duT_-kdXIsFMsAccQbdk0t1PK7UOrsh5gWMuuvmlSpnTDbosTkhyKtCChHVbPslo-RKlBICIm51jJNK0Pqh-TArl9hLsuO3-BQWNlxQnZ5UNanny90NxbPIrBk3IVeCDrlDY_yutc9PHLemRzZP2/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fWYCnA8OrChdIGJlRzTcplq70g0AYqkU6bnUr2O8duT_-kdXIsFMsAccQbdk0t1PK7UOrsh5gWMuuvmlSpnTDbosTkhyKtCChHVbPslo-RKlBICIm51jJNK0Pqh-TArl9hLsuO3-BQWNlxQnZ5UNanny90NxbPIrBk3IVeCDrlDY_yutc9PHLemRzZP2/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.2.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitV8weHRDmisOrC74WhN69vsXmvqnBtnIogSWT4l2iiFQY2b6SKEZpdnKw6e4BAAf0nRLCKDUWmefbsQHS6zx9tTrTMWkBvraW3pBVLQjspuqWAyLogYG-vhNEEfqO6wOqb2df1fgloyA5MU-UtBpT28aJU-TWu-RBSEGiB8u5hubCJG1MZpY91lqPujl6/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitV8weHRDmisOrC74WhN69vsXmvqnBtnIogSWT4l2iiFQY2b6SKEZpdnKw6e4BAAf0nRLCKDUWmefbsQHS6zx9tTrTMWkBvraW3pBVLQjspuqWAyLogYG-vhNEEfqO6wOqb2df1fgloyA5MU-UtBpT28aJU-TWu-RBSEGiB8u5hubCJG1MZpY91lqPujl6/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.3.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5oGyF73CIpJDGpaYEaK5cP03MybFEIriM3aW6WW-6WKcsg08NbWL9sefJRk5HwTP3S7NbE16O9yxHaQUb022XeLBYu64s9259CCs-F4B5RjxNFygjhwVZdzo5BgsPqrIwsaEIWnghzNwqoCMHIZ87griUGDkK64WlvH1BhDXhUy6zOdlOgkdN-F3zKl-/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5oGyF73CIpJDGpaYEaK5cP03MybFEIriM3aW6WW-6WKcsg08NbWL9sefJRk5HwTP3S7NbE16O9yxHaQUb022XeLBYu64s9259CCs-F4B5RjxNFygjhwVZdzo5BgsPqrIwsaEIWnghzNwqoCMHIZ87griUGDkK64WlvH1BhDXhUy6zOdlOgkdN-F3zKl-/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.4.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWEgp1Mqc2RhL0x-aLABvgxju2m8FPzahyGWgbdBHu5p1PC7Uktfd5HEUrScstq5_Dv0jFgtuxZgwqWmqZgurckDgVECWW0WJUqngyVtaahPsuHh-1N9Zucm1qSo2Cp6f8oijhvY2JEjWlXcoeIXe2ZHELJr45tbyxjDQeq-peUTqiRCdjqFakFMNkvVv/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWEgp1Mqc2RhL0x-aLABvgxju2m8FPzahyGWgbdBHu5p1PC7Uktfd5HEUrScstq5_Dv0jFgtuxZgwqWmqZgurckDgVECWW0WJUqngyVtaahPsuHh-1N9Zucm1qSo2Cp6f8oijhvY2JEjWlXcoeIXe2ZHELJr45tbyxjDQeq-peUTqiRCdjqFakFMNkvVv/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20182.5.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></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 John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. 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Baker Street Elementary – The Wizarding World of Sherlock Holmes

“as if by magic” [REDC] Sherlock Holmes appeared to have other-worldly powers to some people in his orbit. It's not that he was employi...

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Baker Street Elementary – An Impish Habit

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“You are certainly joking, Holmes” [BLUE] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5dtdwmA5Y0hUGznccuJ9nsD3iLIY3kr_sIBWerAosyNNqgQ0uUnxa_YKevFwhcZRU5CXRzaPPkNOKPMXHXHuA7liL8dgNaL63FP8xOV3eyI-Hj-bz0tmWdHN1ljtoi_0lPNiZ75dXITGLkNOR6h7Fbln0YXDur9ZdFTyHA078tSfzK8e4ufLukizu4S1/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20181.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5dtdwmA5Y0hUGznccuJ9nsD3iLIY3kr_sIBWerAosyNNqgQ0uUnxa_YKevFwhcZRU5CXRzaPPkNOKPMXHXHuA7liL8dgNaL63FP8xOV3eyI-Hj-bz0tmWdHN1ljtoi_0lPNiZ75dXITGLkNOR6h7Fbln0YXDur9ZdFTyHA078tSfzK8e4ufLukizu4S1/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20181.1.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sherlock Holmes was a practical joker.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The great consulting detective — known for his deductive reasoning skills, his numerous monographs, and the seriousness with which he took his work — enjoyed practical jokes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He admitted it himself in "The Mazarin Stone," when he returned the jewel to its rightful owner:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Too bad, Lord Cantlemere, too bad!” cried Holmes. “My old friend here will tell you that I have an impish habit of practical joking. Also that I can never resist a dramatic situation. I took the liberty—the very great liberty, I admit—of putting the stone into your pocket at the beginning of our interview.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He used a similar ruse (but didn't admit it) with the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope in "The Second Stain," when he slipped the missing document back into the despatch box.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So when clients, the police, or perpetrators claimed actions were practical jokes — such as in "The Dancing Men," "The Five Orange Pips," or "The Norwood Builder," respectively — Holmes, an inveterate practical joker as well as a world-class consulting detective, knew that such suggestions were incorrect.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Add to this Holmes's delight in fooling others with his various disguises, and we find a wonderfully mischievous sense of humor beneath the logical exterior. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Related: </b></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Trifles </i>Episode 259: <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2021/12/episode-259-did-sherlock-holmes-have.html" target="_blank">Did Sherlock Holmes Have a Sense of Humor?</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="2403" data-dashlane-rid="00cc39d2589cad5f" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/21502643/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/676767/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And to think it might have all started at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – An Impish Habit

“You are certainly joking, Holmes” [BLUE] Sherlock Holmes was a practical joker. The great consulting detective — known for his deductive r...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – We Didn't Start the Fire

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a smoke-laden atmosphere” [VEIL] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7S0BqUpUL0MPNAIZIQNU0J2uxJjjLvZpJX_BnbfxGBo5pVzx2rQt9hzvrWv6cBmJeyFXOlnvk_rekS717lSVDUCXIa4rooKZ5CRIFuB9Djtyhrz1OpS-2aWZiQmUb173H5ae43hrbAEZ2tz93Ui7MnTjoh81UvS0zMlxSFaHRqOQwddzZFwAM2d_0ioH/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20180.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7S0BqUpUL0MPNAIZIQNU0J2uxJjjLvZpJX_BnbfxGBo5pVzx2rQt9hzvrWv6cBmJeyFXOlnvk_rekS717lSVDUCXIa4rooKZ5CRIFuB9Djtyhrz1OpS-2aWZiQmUb173H5ae43hrbAEZ2tz93Ui7MnTjoh81UvS0zMlxSFaHRqOQwddzZFwAM2d_0ioH/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20180.1.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To imagine Sherlock Holmes without tobacco is impossible. While he is most famously pictured with a pipe (the unwieldy and uncanonical meerschaum, mostly), he also smoked cigars and cigarettes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In fact, we dedicated a number of episodes of <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2018/08/episode-83-smoke-if-you-got-em.html" target="_blank"><i>Trifles</i></a> to various aspects of Holmes's and Watson's smoking habits:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles71" target="_blank">Episode 71 - Inside 221B: Where There's Smoke</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles83" target="_blank">Episode 83 - Smoke If You Got 'Em</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2022/09/episode-297-arcadia-mixture.html" target="_blank">Episode 297 - The Arcadia Mixture</a></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But among all of those minutes of discussion, we didn't give one thought as to when each of them began "to indulge [their] filthy habits," as Holmes accused Watson in 'The Veiled Lodger.'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Might it have happened at public school? Perhaps their older brothers had a hand in it at home. Or time  in the army (for Watson) or at university.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Needless to say, they each were men of the time and partook in various tobacco types when we knew them. Whether Holmes with his disputatious clay pipe [COPP] or Watson with his cigarettes from Bradley's in Oxford Street [HOUN].</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Might they have picked up the habit at Baker Street Elementary? 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