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Baker Street Elementary – That's Lame

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“making my excuses” [SCAN] </h4><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; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6nGbnFry8MYy68_1KvvAZREabJoCrJXUAzJQcy2ERCXJcJuvdqL1JOgOMQmVHzc2R6D-NGOz4GY7amh1Sx7nT17NnPzaeP_bGJhAvJ97oEVVcONbdohZ53GYXxVXaznYwHPousBCK6RKQwNh0K9YdRQpcEV9OmSj5Lvezfx9IsisxYuXuPxpbOX9ukWOe/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.1.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/AVvXsEh6nGbnFry8MYy68_1KvvAZREabJoCrJXUAzJQcy2ERCXJcJuvdqL1JOgOMQmVHzc2R6D-NGOz4GY7amh1Sx7nT17NnPzaeP_bGJhAvJ97oEVVcONbdohZ53GYXxVXaznYwHPousBCK6RKQwNh0K9YdRQpcEV9OmSj5Lvezfx9IsisxYuXuPxpbOX9ukWOe/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>It isn't often that Sherlock Holmes makes a mistake. Or makes an excuse if he can't properly divine information from meager clues at hand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And yet, that is exactly the position Watson placed him in when he tested Holmes's powers in the opening of <i>The Sign of Four</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Handing Holmes a pocket watch, Watson asks him for his “opinion upon the character or habits of the late owner,” who happens to be, unknown to Sherlock Holmes, Watson's own brother.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And in doing so, Watson admits to setting a trap for Holmes:</div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I handed him over the watch with some slight feeling of amusement in my heart, for the test was, as I thought, an impossible one, and I intended it as a lesson against the somewhat dogmatic tone which he occasionally assumed.” </div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Holmes quickly surveyed the watch and gave this excuse: “The watch has been recently cleaned, which robs me of my most suggestive facts.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In his mind, Watson took the victory lap:</div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“In my heart I accused my companion of putting forward a most lame and impotent excuse to cover his failure. What data could he expect from an uncleaned watch?”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">However, the excuse submitted by Holmes was unnecessary, as he was able to discern a good number of facts about the watch's owner, who happened to be Watson's older brother:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote>“He was a man of untidy habits,—very untidy and careless. He was left with good prospects, but he threw away his chances, lived for some time in poverty with occasional short intervals of prosperity, and finally, taking to drink, he died. That is all I can gather.”</blockquote></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That'll teach anyone to doubt Sherlock Holmes. Meanwhile, it's not clear that the lessons taught at Baker Street Elementary are getting through...</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/AVvXsEgd7sHDpLf7246QalYT8_9AZQduPLtJxM6K-i_f3L2H436D4ZZOMzkMWXk1xAo1lpSa3hh16MCMT5rv2hbBtDPm4LBOd8_n_5ZWEGKJysUI7dRX8GP_UH2iY3EDI-ZeET9pu-ciMUecaZvxyHsg66cA-aEA9s-UviFSrAR4_m_h_foBK_nOaJ-GXQuSx0Pi/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.2.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/AVvXsEgd7sHDpLf7246QalYT8_9AZQduPLtJxM6K-i_f3L2H436D4ZZOMzkMWXk1xAo1lpSa3hh16MCMT5rv2hbBtDPm4LBOd8_n_5ZWEGKJysUI7dRX8GP_UH2iY3EDI-ZeET9pu-ciMUecaZvxyHsg66cA-aEA9s-UviFSrAR4_m_h_foBK_nOaJ-GXQuSx0Pi/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJEA-LpAEvJaq4J_2UU87jhJp9DH0eZshGWrTFNSr6o4oO5mRw4DCAL8T1fihCuAlw1QM6TK-8VyNm8c-Z-iUqWHnvmGh8OGXPJ9oDTNzkC8IzVBDWbNwGA5GVmzIiRyMY01LCsdZGdLfNLyVAvOnS6mog8SSKyFZI7EDXIC4J16F03ztjYp6ku4QtEut/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.3.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/AVvXsEgaJEA-LpAEvJaq4J_2UU87jhJp9DH0eZshGWrTFNSr6o4oO5mRw4DCAL8T1fihCuAlw1QM6TK-8VyNm8c-Z-iUqWHnvmGh8OGXPJ9oDTNzkC8IzVBDWbNwGA5GVmzIiRyMY01LCsdZGdLfNLyVAvOnS6mog8SSKyFZI7EDXIC4J16F03ztjYp6ku4QtEut/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOLX7SoRW6CUgn611tGB2a1o2rzEa6qwuO0bSlSUNLZDB49cDEetISCWyvAK-bdEGUmAoxKmB_RHKDc6w_GLml0dl0iBmbD4Dw5-HZKh4-H8r2g0PuXIXUORXzXgm8f0K17rvX9FrHXO1pJLa6HCBiiaQxBIrI7bjPFS_YszOaieTzoGBfNnlStS9IeHd/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.4.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/AVvXsEgYOLX7SoRW6CUgn611tGB2a1o2rzEa6qwuO0bSlSUNLZDB49cDEetISCWyvAK-bdEGUmAoxKmB_RHKDc6w_GLml0dl0iBmbD4Dw5-HZKh4-H8r2g0PuXIXUORXzXgm8f0K17rvX9FrHXO1pJLa6HCBiiaQxBIrI7bjPFS_YszOaieTzoGBfNnlStS9IeHd/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPx4PNBOaB5Zg4NyrXY2jH8pXoVJM-y5FeOdp3rPpMnhRUt9tccXRx3n7CsO4NslHDlnYx7AOaTiGgpUjLHO4p8Iv4zXyZbZ3ryfFuvYWLFyu8aucQFFBoapd0stFrY_Jz5DYpLbDsD4EAGnCbKhlSRO8ZZpPFbxd3wqmRWyvCbrz7MqhDCNOv6CucPdlP/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.5.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/AVvXsEjPx4PNBOaB5Zg4NyrXY2jH8pXoVJM-y5FeOdp3rPpMnhRUt9tccXRx3n7CsO4NslHDlnYx7AOaTiGgpUjLHO4p8Iv4zXyZbZ3ryfFuvYWLFyu8aucQFFBoapd0stFrY_Jz5DYpLbDsD4EAGnCbKhlSRO8ZZpPFbxd3wqmRWyvCbrz7MqhDCNOv6CucPdlP/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20192.5.JPG" width="640" /></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>

Baker Street Elementary – That's Lame

“making my excuses” [SCAN] It isn't often that Sherlock Holmes makes a mistake. Or makes an excuse if he can't properly divine info...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Happy 10th Anniversary

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“even in a decade” [SECO] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoC33lKhyphenhyphenEBJE9i9IwemdGGoyjTCWO3l32NHi9UUOXMXtQFqORLbcF4Q8Jd8J15DGbmaLWSmoAkL4Dexhn6N4xMNm4FslGkWMxTbmsFOD21CGVkB3P__RR_3vhypIxaycqHfirqkJOtIJb06jIkAPCQbE_B0_r4YJdaxy8C39fV5CM2LvWh8GskQkzIQRl/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.1.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/AVvXsEhoC33lKhyphenhyphenEBJE9i9IwemdGGoyjTCWO3l32NHi9UUOXMXtQFqORLbcF4Q8Jd8J15DGbmaLWSmoAkL4Dexhn6N4xMNm4FslGkWMxTbmsFOD21CGVkB3P__RR_3vhypIxaycqHfirqkJOtIJb06jIkAPCQbE_B0_r4YJdaxy8C39fV5CM2LvWh8GskQkzIQRl/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.1.JPG" /></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;">As any parent knows, the days are long, but the years are short. And so it is with the children of <a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It has now been 10 years since this Charles Schulz-inspired Sherlockian comic strip made its debut from the minds of Joe Fay, Rusty Mason, and Steve Mason. Here at <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i>, we recognized the innocence and joy of Baker Street Elementary as a throwback to the Sunday comics of yore, and have featured this strip every other Sunday on this site for the past eight years (along with some related commentary).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Think of what a decade of Holmes and Watson together gave us: the two first met in early 1881 and their exploits included <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, <i>The Sign of Four</i>, the entire collection of <i>The Adventures</i> and <i>The Memoirs</i>, ending only with "death" of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls with Professor Moriarty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Those tales meant we would encounter a clever female foil for Sherlock Holmes, a client with a severed digit, a scam targeted at a man with red hair, a snake as a murder weapon, short hair and a blue dress as a requirement for employment, a disappearing horse, a murderous pygmy, an travel-worn American set on vengeance, and a number of past acquaintances whose reappearance meant death.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This was just the beginning of a 40-year journey. Will Baker Street Elementary have the same longevity? Only time will tell.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, it doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon...</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/AVvXsEhImZTVWYPTEp8Uhwo6GAo1h7YzVo8SbBwPvUlKOsGeRok3TKBdB8AJcOGNrncU6PwC-JnK_mOuvpYrCbyrUsQ6xDCNYklTOJzXXbda0WHMBuroi6EDiT2sBcYjruNNFJkwKwDXPksxWxbBit3Eg_0bA7X3SXWQtcGyNwHrRDv8TSv_JbNFy6-YY2Dgf3yq/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.2.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/AVvXsEhImZTVWYPTEp8Uhwo6GAo1h7YzVo8SbBwPvUlKOsGeRok3TKBdB8AJcOGNrncU6PwC-JnK_mOuvpYrCbyrUsQ6xDCNYklTOJzXXbda0WHMBuroi6EDiT2sBcYjruNNFJkwKwDXPksxWxbBit3Eg_0bA7X3SXWQtcGyNwHrRDv8TSv_JbNFy6-YY2Dgf3yq/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.2.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWMt9ZdBwR8aXWBr8YD_fVeB8kVZS447wyz0NlGKYhM8hS5NwGBR3mpkKHGA0BEqBI5uTgDp-UU2s1Lx3hRLFvEj0a3m5EBc2e_MExOmQSP9SVReXJlJmcgX_R9WwvcfsFaMYLDHLxbYfu_T-4ezvKRyDVj4XAaVgEyXFu2MbFvYFAChc0F23kAz0_kpny/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.3.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/AVvXsEjWMt9ZdBwR8aXWBr8YD_fVeB8kVZS447wyz0NlGKYhM8hS5NwGBR3mpkKHGA0BEqBI5uTgDp-UU2s1Lx3hRLFvEj0a3m5EBc2e_MExOmQSP9SVReXJlJmcgX_R9WwvcfsFaMYLDHLxbYfu_T-4ezvKRyDVj4XAaVgEyXFu2MbFvYFAChc0F23kAz0_kpny/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.3.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDnSA_nPEFXPGiA54hcPyqnLGvHzPoDE5gAxoeu9vgQGDJbktcOst8mkI1ER3bO-c0VsEmE4Gem-x5TpTpB0i0ITeW5RtWTtLVJKzVyS8KBnW3iJwBW0sCpEcp6Tqp9q3PMpTmc1oX3HNhqgs0lFszBDtgFbkCZXfYVCfrpOJaAAmLNnH35P8Mi4Tjs8l/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.4.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/AVvXsEgYDnSA_nPEFXPGiA54hcPyqnLGvHzPoDE5gAxoeu9vgQGDJbktcOst8mkI1ER3bO-c0VsEmE4Gem-x5TpTpB0i0ITeW5RtWTtLVJKzVyS8KBnW3iJwBW0sCpEcp6Tqp9q3PMpTmc1oX3HNhqgs0lFszBDtgFbkCZXfYVCfrpOJaAAmLNnH35P8Mi4Tjs8l/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.4.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_tXF4jc26S9EXNXjprLhsEmuftb74UuJ3Somc9fwUDi7niFcEb6I1nWSx9j31hLSYLJ95PP7wIB7OxXoQP0m6Vj077FrAFweR7IzsKrdQoIXPCA_L2-ewi1fQsPRJ5Pjh9otCOYMKFG0Lv-25M_9GC1l9J9-YVL4izxiNK4-OPqpvhIhZnkzSsV4LERG6/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.5.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/AVvXsEj_tXF4jc26S9EXNXjprLhsEmuftb74UuJ3Somc9fwUDi7niFcEb6I1nWSx9j31hLSYLJ95PP7wIB7OxXoQP0m6Vj077FrAFweR7IzsKrdQoIXPCA_L2-ewi1fQsPRJ5Pjh9otCOYMKFG0Lv-25M_9GC1l9J9-YVL4izxiNK4-OPqpvhIhZnkzSsV4LERG6/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20191.5.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 />

Baker Street Elementary – Happy 10th Anniversary

“even in a decade” [SECO] As any parent knows, the days are long, but the years are short. And so it is with the children of Baker Street E...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – High Stakes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“never for such stakes” [EMPT] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrbhI1YxXMekKvLFqXh-0Hid2vVJKUGavpOJXhmQgfxbvMYYQ-acR-CZJS1Gpk_DzRj5IVb-0BtCHgrQ5HlWgl08kijhD4PUUZs0OHpvl_8dosLTv4NZIE85Wgszay8ma-9HpPNnoQv-pTs5y9H9mNaQYZoIZkeHyI_QMwXovtKRT50GQ6JcX73osWrQet/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20190.1.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/AVvXsEjrbhI1YxXMekKvLFqXh-0Hid2vVJKUGavpOJXhmQgfxbvMYYQ-acR-CZJS1Gpk_DzRj5IVb-0BtCHgrQ5HlWgl08kijhD4PUUZs0OHpvl_8dosLTv4NZIE85Wgszay8ma-9HpPNnoQv-pTs5y9H9mNaQYZoIZkeHyI_QMwXovtKRT50GQ6JcX73osWrQet/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20190.1.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 all know Sherlock Holmes's reaction to the existence of vampires: “It's pure lunacy.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He was specifically referring to the widely accepted myth that vampires could be defeated by driving a stake through their hearts in order to pin them in their graves. The type of wood mattered too; oak and ash were preferred for their mystical qualities.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Interestingly, in Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, the Count wasn't defeated with a stake through his heart. According to Mina Murray's narrative, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris pried open the lid of the box in which Dracula lay, the one decapitating him with a Kukri and the other piercing his heart with a bowie knife: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat; whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris’s bowie knife plunged into the heart.</span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And while the creator of Sherlock Holmes thought the idea of vampires was fanciful, he had a direct connection to Bram Stoker. And you can hear Edward Pettit discuss that in <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2024/10/episode-298-monsters-ghosts.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 298</a> of <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-rid="1f17e2cbbdd067e6" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/33699927/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/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 class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The boys at Baker Street Elementary may not have gotten the memo on vampires quite yet...</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 – High Stakes

“never for such stakes” [EMPT] We all know Sherlock Holmes's reaction to the existence of vampires: “It's pure lunacy.” He was spec...

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by Scott Monty

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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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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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 />