Baker Street Elementary — The Bespectacled Band

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“He peered at me with great curiosity</span>” [FINA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpdu1MZyzNxBOkNrjER9wZZPUBO-3C63qcL8Z6PJEZeAYzVK4IUbrdqA-y4YJMTyGabfNKy3IrdqjNUKWLcoIIQaxqgyuG-8UBk7Y5d0FYRDSXA7_iz2rNbwFmHFwwsSULFnHJDPat686/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpdu1MZyzNxBOkNrjER9wZZPUBO-3C63qcL8Z6PJEZeAYzVK4IUbrdqA-y4YJMTyGabfNKy3IrdqjNUKWLcoIIQaxqgyuG-8UBk7Y5d0FYRDSXA7_iz2rNbwFmHFwwsSULFnHJDPat686/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>For a set of stories that was written by a physician who himself was a failed ophthamologist, it's comforting to see his former profession creep into the Canon.</div><div><br /></div><div>One entry in the Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Golden Pince-Nez," even scores a title that was directly associated with Conan Doyle's former field of study. But what about other appearances of corrective lenses in the works?</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's a quick accounting of some of those who required glasses:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Mr. Sherman</b>, the animal proprietor, had "stooping shoulders, a stringy neck, and blue-tinted glasses." [SIGN]</li><li><b>Mary Sutherland</b> wore pince-nez and her stepfather, James Windibank "wore tinted glasses against the glare." [IDEN]</li><li><b>John Openshaw</b> entered 221B Baker Street, saying ""I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to his eyes." [FIVE]</li><li>A more grandiose entrance came from <b>Lord Robert St. Simon</b>, who "advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his golden eyeglasses." [NOBL]</li><li><b>Jephro Rucastle</b> "sat at [Miss Stoper's] elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very earnestly at the ladies who entered." [COPP]</li><li><b>Wilson Kemp</b> "was a little gentleman, with glasses, thin in the face, but very pleasant in his ways, for he was laughing all the time that he was talking." [GREE]</li><li>One of the other famous pairs of glasses in the Canon was worn by <b>Charles Augustus Milverton</b>, whose "grey eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, golden-rimmed glasses." [CHAS]</li><li><b>Dr. Mortimer</b> had "a long nose like a beak, which jutted out between two keen, gray eyes, set closely together and sparkling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses." [HOUN]</li><li><b>John McMurdo</b>'s "gray eyes gleamed with sudden and dangerous anger from behind his glasses." [VALL]</li><li>"Our client [<b>Nathan Garrideb</b>] shone with pleasure and his eyes gleamed from behind his big glasses." [3GAR]</li><li><b>Professor Presbury</b> "appeared at the front window, and we were aware of a pair of keen eyes from under shaggy brows which surveyed us through large horn glasses." [CREE]</li></ul>We're grateful that Conan Doyle wasn't so completely turned off by the study of the ocular that he gave up thinking about such things entirely. One of the reasons the Canon worked well at the time and remains popular today is its reality. Look around: we're surrounded by people who wear glasses.<br /><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, Baker Street Elementary brings this into focus for us...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3O5KyRBl9AVm11T6vXRTvKHrLJEr23BOvcF0025xO_M1BuE0JT-xRNFDlBEzEZnYOGscq_sQPqOpLJTQ5-wcA7ABs_vZEPz2MIF8KNm3a0tWoEq8Eb1rNYODFOMImHk1kArY_exZWMz2T/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3O5KyRBl9AVm11T6vXRTvKHrLJEr23BOvcF0025xO_M1BuE0JT-xRNFDlBEzEZnYOGscq_sQPqOpLJTQ5-wcA7ABs_vZEPz2MIF8KNm3a0tWoEq8Eb1rNYODFOMImHk1kArY_exZWMz2T/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2Iu-8uzJU2MEfyap5XGQDnEV0cRKc7kLD_1B8MdxDFkBqdHp1XiXbmNJbPUzEgCECC322L-SM9pyqR6eRvZSRPsg2ibJViWG7oEzm8IX-ib0gx0mdYXzQ1W1ZJfsru7s65_vh7Seu6ri/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2Iu-8uzJU2MEfyap5XGQDnEV0cRKc7kLD_1B8MdxDFkBqdHp1XiXbmNJbPUzEgCECC322L-SM9pyqR6eRvZSRPsg2ibJViWG7oEzm8IX-ib0gx0mdYXzQ1W1ZJfsru7s65_vh7Seu6ri/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZQxg55FE1gZLQferXg7Zm24olyjSxaSXkiPXRc11BsJ_cAsGn279tmZv-tig7o9C_scwKCv7jsNlOv63KLDf6_WSFPTMeMvZZVNybDHXcUVEcffGAt1FT3u8pvaGmTIeldibnJhlMgEo/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZQxg55FE1gZLQferXg7Zm24olyjSxaSXkiPXRc11BsJ_cAsGn279tmZv-tig7o9C_scwKCv7jsNlOv63KLDf6_WSFPTMeMvZZVNybDHXcUVEcffGAt1FT3u8pvaGmTIeldibnJhlMgEo/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPQS18z27-J9vdazZpmAHya0q_yD6V9ZL7N2Iy7rH2701D7ACjsh1WcISOpNn9CmektCIDekkBrnNvgGhyphenhyphenG4Teulc0xsRoCfZoDVmM1LTTDHHN1StcrK7MjaHWHjuUAttd94jNZ8lqtKH/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPQS18z27-J9vdazZpmAHya0q_yD6V9ZL7N2Iy7rH2701D7ACjsh1WcISOpNn9CmektCIDekkBrnNvgGhyphenhyphenG4Teulc0xsRoCfZoDVmM1LTTDHHN1StcrK7MjaHWHjuUAttd94jNZ8lqtKH/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRYu41aqMX3hIkZDYpMwDIRaFFQq5GgAeV0lCu46v6_J7tKxnvzwIaZAXBePwZ7pHQObwJLLq2kiXM_ONb01T9Ablr0VluzF8BBl2WtXUus6I6KOzpKj0sXocnnWt9js83hyphenhyphen7aa-mbSYMv/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.6.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRYu41aqMX3hIkZDYpMwDIRaFFQq5GgAeV0lCu46v6_J7tKxnvzwIaZAXBePwZ7pHQObwJLLq2kiXM_ONb01T9Ablr0VluzF8BBl2WtXUus6I6KOzpKj0sXocnnWt9js83hyphenhyphen7aa-mbSYMv/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+105.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> 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 Bespectacled Band

“He peered at me with great curiosity ” [FINA]  For a set of stories that was written by a physician who himself was a failed ophthamologist...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 215: The Sherlock Holmes Society of London at 70

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases" [SPEC] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfbTODFE4N39uwDf3qhUnr9pXVE2PqhFTjUfggO7Zir2pAP6A71oXRqUzrMWuGyd57rKhTF1Dpp1-jqh7LD7OzTpHlGlOrGz_h3rVhJXlzX-y0St2Fd-cw64rzuqGB7Trl2Q1-j-yFq_i/s623/Header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="623" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfbTODFE4N39uwDf3qhUnr9pXVE2PqhFTjUfggO7Zir2pAP6A71oXRqUzrMWuGyd57rKhTF1Dpp1-jqh7LD7OzTpHlGlOrGz_h3rVhJXlzX-y0St2Fd-cw64rzuqGB7Trl2Q1-j-yFq_i/w640-h260/Header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>One of the most well-known societies in the Sherlockian / Holmesian world is <a href="https://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/" target="_blank">The Sherlock Holmes Society of London</a>. Originally founded in 1934, the society lost steam for a few years and was permanently re-incorporated in 1951.<div><br /></div><div>Nicholas Utechin, BSI ("The Ancient British Barrow") joins I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere to discuss the society's remarkable history, including its founding, exciting events and expeditions, and its commitment to remaining a membership-based organization.</div><div><br /><div>You won't want to miss Nick's announcement of something very special coming up for members on May 15.<br /><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz winner this time will win a copy of <i><a href="https://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/product/this-august-and-scholarly-body/" target="_blank">This August and Scholarly Body: The Society at 70</a></i>.  Answers are due by May 14, 2021 at 11:59 a.m.</p><br /><p>Information on sponsors, links, and notes available below.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 215: The Sherlock Holmes Society of London at 70

"In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases" [SPEC]  One of the most well-known societies in the Sherlockian / Holmesian w...

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by Scott Monty

Sherlock Holmes — His Limits

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"You defined my limits in a very precise fashion" [FIVE]</h4> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxha-boxOk8yGj9HqdSPGi4JuiE-PXzB6ASrd1wWYJMjT9G9gvN5hMbkgp0ncxvBPZeO-SXDUzUQSvVZakYVYeqQE_FVF7tGgFjTJ0mD3uoW1Bjs76gKvX6ey7N8_qwmChNMz48K2blnc/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="960" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxha-boxOk8yGj9HqdSPGi4JuiE-PXzB6ASrd1wWYJMjT9G9gvN5hMbkgp0ncxvBPZeO-SXDUzUQSvVZakYVYeqQE_FVF7tGgFjTJ0mD3uoW1Bjs76gKvX6ey7N8_qwmChNMz48K2blnc/w640-h410/image.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image credit: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNfpel0c2J8&t=1980s&ab_channel=YourDailyBrew" target="_blank">YouTube</a></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /> Knowledge of literature — nil. Knowledge of astronomy — nil. Admirers of Sherlock Holmes all know that Watson erred badly in his assessment of his roommate, rendered as "Sherlock Holmes — his limits" in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>. We are talking, remember, about the same Sherlock Holmes who quoted Goethe, Hafiz and Flaubert, and who chatted over dinner about the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic. <br /><br /> But performance appraisals are never easy, and anybody who has been a parent knows about reading a school report card, basking in every positive comment, and tensing up over any hint that the great hope of the next generation needs to work harder on spelling. <div><br /></div><div>Mastery of one class is noted with an A as "profound", of another as "feeble" with an F; and what can a parent make of a notation that the student's work in a third field of study is "accurate, but unsystematic"? What was the teacher thinking? <br /><br /> In this case, what was Watson thinking? </div><div><br /></div><div>Was he really qualified to judge Holmes's violin playing, or his proficiency with the singlestick? A physician himself, he might reasonably pass judgement on Holmes's knowledge of anatomy and even chemistry, but did he have the qualifications in philosophy to conclude that Holmes's expertise there too was "nil"? <br /><br /> Such objections have been raised many times. But perhaps the most damning criticism of Watson's report card on Holmes is the number of subjects that it entirely omits. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mathematics, for example: had Watson not yet noticed the mathematical finesse that allowed Holmes to work out the calculations of the Musgrave oak and elm, or to boast when determining a train's speed that "the calculation is a simple one"? <br /><br /> The railway calculation may be simple in theory, by the way, but it's awkward in practice. Several Sherlockians have tied themselves in knots over a formula for working out the speed in one's head, including Julian Wolff in <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> in 1963 (The Editor's Gas-Lamp: "The Dynamics of the Binomial Theorem," <i>BSJ</i>, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1963. pp. 199-200).</div><div><br /></div><div>He advised that to come up with his conclusion of 53.5 miles per hour, Holmes merely had to "divide 1227.27 by the number of seconds required to travel 1800 feet". And he appended this elegant graph. </div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7oDY1qdRLLfpkNf2KX9a9XXcFTa6t5ypI2c7P1eTpfQmFRJFVyYgWvpXQxZdObEFak-o59sTdl9LCRdCzYpotlDiwB6zqqeqmsaAMDHNGCYnq9CxO5m-wWLS1XWNk2sZNvld5aS9vHH4/s804/wolffgraph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="804" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7oDY1qdRLLfpkNf2KX9a9XXcFTa6t5ypI2c7P1eTpfQmFRJFVyYgWvpXQxZdObEFak-o59sTdl9LCRdCzYpotlDiwB6zqqeqmsaAMDHNGCYnq9CxO5m-wWLS1XWNk2sZNvld5aS9vHH4/w640-h588/wolffgraph.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Wolff's chart, BSJ, Vol. 13, No. 4</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Long-time Sherlockian and math professor Tom Drucker has kindly reminded me that if d = rt (distance equals rate times time) then r = d/t (rate is equal to distance over time). "Since the distance is being kept fixed," he writes, "that just gives an inverse relationship between rate and time, as illustrated in Wolff's graph. The curve itself is a hyperbola."</div><div><br /><br /> But Watson's report card for Holmes has no line for mathematics! Nor is there one for foreign languages, though it appears that Holmes had some acquaintance at least with French, German, Italian, Persian, Arabic and Tibetan. <br /><br /> What about zoology: was it as "variable" as Holmes's botany? Maybe it was, at that, considering his willingness to believe that snakes drink milk, and his insistence that a worm found in an ordinary match-box was "unknown to science". It is notable that his response to the charlatanism of "The Creeping Man" is cast as philosophy (nil) rather than physiology (feeble). <br /><br /> There is an interesting lacuna somewhere between Holmes's alleged knowledge of botany (variable… knows nothing of practical gardening) and his expertise in the varied soils of London, which Watson places under Geology. It is interesting to imagine that Holmes, who grew up as the heir to a line of "country squires", got his knowledge of dirt from listening to conversations between his father and a steward or foreman on the family land, but did not stick around long enough for the repetitive labor of planting. And yet he knew, in the case of "Wisteria Lodge", what one is supposed to do with a spud, a tin box, and an elementary book on botany — it's never too late to learn.</div><div><br /></div><div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Don't Know Much About History?  </h2>And as I recently prepared an essay on canonical references to English kings, queens, battles, and constitutions, now in print as <i><a href="http://credmond.ca/ashoe.html" target="_blank">A Sherlockian History of England</a></i>, I found myself wondering why Watson does not even attempt to rate his new acquaintance's "Knowledge of History" along with Literature and Astronomy. </div><div><br /></div><div>That knowledge cannot have been quite "nil", since an English schoolboy can hardly escape without learning a little about William of Orange and the Battle of Waterloo. In fact, as I point out in my essay, Holmes studies early English charters (land deeds), investigates an ancient British barrow (burial site), examines Saxon and Norman graves with professional care at Shoscombe Old Place, recognizes allusions to Charles I and Charles II in the Musgrave ritual, buys a 1642 book and chats with Watson about its origins, knows one Napoleonic battle from another, has an opinion about the causes of the American Revolution, ostentatiously identifies the date of a century-old house — in short, shows every evidence of being familiar with British history, especially (but not only) its relevance to his own work. <br /><br /> Knowledge of History, then: profound, although one might admit to its being "unsystematic" in view of the theory he apparently espouses connecting the Cornish language to ancient Chaldean, brought to Cornwall by Phoenician tin traders from Lebanon. The mildest thing one might say about this suggestion is that <a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2002-May/022206.html" target="_blank">modern archaeologists do not agree with it</a>, but Holmes the historian gets points for being aware that tin mining has been the backbone of Cornish civilization for many centuries. <br /><br /><br /> It would appear that he knew something of American history too, incidentally, at least enough to be aware of the Ku Klux Klan (in "The Five Orange Pips") and to make sense of Effie Munro's story in "The Yellow Face". What his marks might be in genetics, in view of how he accepted that narrative, is a question for another day. <br /><br /> History, mathematics, biology, even geography (though Holmes apparently knew where Egria was): Watson's sketch of Holmes's limits leaves out too many basic subjects. </div><div><br /></div><div>But of course he was still getting to know his roommate in those days, and one wonders how he had had the opportunity to test that "good practical knowledge of British law" and the expertise in poisons. </div><div><br /></div><div>Would you hire a young professional based on so partial a resumé? </div><div><br /></div><div>Depends on the importance you attach to his knowledge of sensational literature, I suppose.<div dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </div> </div><div><br /></div>

Sherlock Holmes — His Limits

"You defined my limits in a very precise fashion" [FIVE] Image credit: YouTube Knowledge of literature — nil. Knowledge of ast...

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by Chris Redmond

Baker Street Elementary — The Game's Afoot!

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“the scholarship is a very valuable one</span>” [3STU] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLU9AarVU0xmW2QlX3jkmhb_F0zhumv9GKW7oTnuf9TyvHegBdisenqL4sJ6WBRZexG12qLlGjk_ig0dZehT0MjgfO59m_H0EGeAk0n0DzKJokT9vrd_leMvogRk9vZ_93xRCb8zEygRf-/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+104.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLU9AarVU0xmW2QlX3jkmhb_F0zhumv9GKW7oTnuf9TyvHegBdisenqL4sJ6WBRZexG12qLlGjk_ig0dZehT0MjgfO59m_H0EGeAk0n0DzKJokT9vrd_leMvogRk9vZ_93xRCb8zEygRf-/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+104.1.JPG" width="640" /></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>For over a hundred years, Sherlockians have pursued "the game" — the pseudo-scholarly effort to understand the Sherlock Holmes stories as having been written by John H. Watson, MD rather than by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.</div><div><br /></div><div>This was first undertaken by Monsignor Ronald Knox in a paper delivered at Oxford University in 1911. Michael Crowe covered it extensively in his <i><a href="https://wessexpress.com/html/knox.html" target="_blank">Ronald Knox and Sherlock Holmes: Origins of Sherlockian Studies,</a></i> published by Wessex Press (now out of print, but <a href="https://amzn.to/3alQ92s" target="_blank">occasionally available from other sellers</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div>Dorothy Sayers summed up the hobby in Unpopular Opinions in 1946, demonstrating the application of Higher Criticism to the Canon had </div><blockquote><div>"the aim of showing that, by those methods, one could disintegrate a modern classic as speciously as a certain school of critics have endeavoured to distintigrate the Bible. Since then, the thing has become a hobby among a select set of jesters."</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Futher, she specified:</div><blockquote><div>"The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord's; the slightest touch of extravagance or burlesque ruins the atmosphere."</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>And so, we acknowledge Conan Doyle's important role—that of literary agent—and Watson's eternal contribution to the world of detective fiction (fact?). And to think that it all began at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div>[<b>Editor's note:</b> The author of <i>Ronald Knox and Sherlock Holmes: Origins of Sherlockian Studies</i> was incorrectly identified as Nicholas Utechin, BSI ("The Ancient British Barrow"). Utechin is the author of the 2010 <i>Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual</i>, <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2010/12/27/bsj-2010-christmas-annual/" target="_blank">From Piff-Pouff to Backnecke:  Ronald Knox and 100 Years of "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes."</a>. </i>We regret the error.]</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiybekxP1Z1wGYvuzJ5OY28aquN2N3fMRx_DxadT1iGhyfDJhCkHh5-P_m4bOT3Ok4hxv6HDj4IgM7h2KKh2dgOfJvd5mbpf0psSnyafQejcnjlTlybgAqqvrCPzRWgqyppR0Z7XVHI-cmU/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+104.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiybekxP1Z1wGYvuzJ5OY28aquN2N3fMRx_DxadT1iGhyfDJhCkHh5-P_m4bOT3Ok4hxv6HDj4IgM7h2KKh2dgOfJvd5mbpf0psSnyafQejcnjlTlybgAqqvrCPzRWgqyppR0Z7XVHI-cmU/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+104.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary — The Game's Afoot!

“the scholarship is a very valuable one ” [3STU]  For over a hundred years, Sherlockians have pursued "the game" — the pseudo-scho...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 214: The 223B Casebook Series

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"magnetism which drew good humour from all around him" [VALL] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhJ8OnAmqU3d-r81kLWgPF_jYLNz08aN-AxV_lolmsZMN7H9Agm7BmabZ0e3poXV-_HgAMjunKU93ihh4AHrjlIpgc4EN7NPQ9EtnP0FBGRgmHC5iO3qKiTAy3OuQGXHw4phiRsiJa8Cz6/s978/Parodies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="978" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhJ8OnAmqU3d-r81kLWgPF_jYLNz08aN-AxV_lolmsZMN7H9Agm7BmabZ0e3poXV-_HgAMjunKU93ihh4AHrjlIpgc4EN7NPQ9EtnP0FBGRgmHC5iO3qKiTAy3OuQGXHw4phiRsiJa8Cz6/w640-h420/Parodies.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's not often that we talk bout the topic of humor on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere. Regular listeners may strain to find humor in Burt and Scott's banter, but we're fans of humor here at IHOSE.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's strange, then, that we find ourselves more than 200 episodes into this production without a nod toward Sherlockian parody. Episode 214 corrects that as we speak to Bill Peschel, who has collected more than 40 years' worth of Sherlockian parodies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In <b>The 223B Casebook Series</b>, Bill takes us on that journey, from the early parodies in <i>Punch</i> by such notables as R.C. Lehmann and P.G. Wodehouse, to two volumes of Edwardian parodies including some by Mark Twain and John Kendrick Bangs, through two volumes each of the Great War and of the Jazz Age, as well as others.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Why 223B? Because they're directly next door to the 221B stories, that's why!</div><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz winner this time will win their choice of a book from the series.  Answers are due by April 29, 2021 at 11:59 a.m.</p><br /><p>Information on sponsors, links, and notes available below.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 214: The 223B Casebook Series

"magnetism which drew good humour from all around him" [VALL]  It's not often that we talk bout the topic of humor on I Hear o...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Write Away

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“</span>“Why do you not write them yourself?” I said, with some bitterness.” [ABBE] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzfDCXqf6TBnV9AmW5h7uk7iNaOfas5J8c05bHqnX1z_KV7rlrqkQw3k9O3nZxywia7lG0c7oxYX7q_orXM4_a9MaELLs6cMed-kEJ6OqDr24FO5TOaDMzlibRz-MMlmtfbsnG1edl4tmw/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzfDCXqf6TBnV9AmW5h7uk7iNaOfas5J8c05bHqnX1z_KV7rlrqkQw3k9O3nZxywia7lG0c7oxYX7q_orXM4_a9MaELLs6cMed-kEJ6OqDr24FO5TOaDMzlibRz-MMlmtfbsnG1edl4tmw/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The "game" that Sherlockians pursue is shrouded in the belief that the true author of the Sherlock Holmes tales is Dr. John H. Watson. Not that we ought to think otherwise, since the very first story, <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, opens with these words:<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Being a reprint from the reminiscences of</div><div style="text-align: center;">John H. Watson, M.D.,</div><div style="text-align: center;">late of the Army Medical Department)</div><div><br /></div><div>In our fun tradition, the lesser role is given to Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, whom we assign the role of "literary agent" on behalf of Dr. Watson. It's all tongue-in-cheek, but makes for interesting thought experiments on everything from determining the chronology of the stories to squaring inconsistencies from tale to tale.</div><div><br /></div><div>Occasionally though, we find stories that are not narrated by Watson. "The Blanched Soldier" is a fine example, in the collection of stories called <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i>. Published in 1926, it comes from Sherlock Holmes's own pen, opening thusly:</div><div><blockquote><div>"The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious. For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my own. Perhaps I have rather invited this persecution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures. “Try it yourself, Holmes!” he has retorted, and I am compelled to admit that, having taken my pen in my hand, I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader."</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>We see that even as early as their years at Baker Street Elementary, there was already some jockeying over authorship...</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiundBBjOVpUvgH2gTiYHjy7UAlJiOmMHy6T6DO5Fnlaq9fsosk179a6Y6qlV9cr-toq8g1XGqa-4TYvIPNSeqpvq0HZEeIKoFiY0Ge0PnoUwoN7UtSVp866kZoBXxugmOM6oqxsvhRNsxZ/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiundBBjOVpUvgH2gTiYHjy7UAlJiOmMHy6T6DO5Fnlaq9fsosk179a6Y6qlV9cr-toq8g1XGqa-4TYvIPNSeqpvq0HZEeIKoFiY0Ge0PnoUwoN7UtSVp866kZoBXxugmOM6oqxsvhRNsxZ/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8-5CoAZ3RG6cLOMrquXVHlSLmjGqe5qzwUTKGK21lVnpayLn7TAmWw8tYgzpTngQbwhTxicBMfPdZdkYhQH_8tzXX5n-Jv78psJSCb4KfO16hVBnvgkj2QElWOL8MwL-XWZibmIwnAxF/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8-5CoAZ3RG6cLOMrquXVHlSLmjGqe5qzwUTKGK21lVnpayLn7TAmWw8tYgzpTngQbwhTxicBMfPdZdkYhQH_8tzXX5n-Jv78psJSCb4KfO16hVBnvgkj2QElWOL8MwL-XWZibmIwnAxF/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghC6ow13wUFkoBEDvBzu5v4ZhqBYHNxNojJqpwoZs9eRx_mlO1h599LxWUEAMbAltmmttjuZNs6I7IYvqOkf-vb3HbqS8-ClRI6u4oeWvHn4Ww4thKbbrdHfUG-oOnBkbGuvD2BGE9Fkn8/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghC6ow13wUFkoBEDvBzu5v4ZhqBYHNxNojJqpwoZs9eRx_mlO1h599LxWUEAMbAltmmttjuZNs6I7IYvqOkf-vb3HbqS8-ClRI6u4oeWvHn4Ww4thKbbrdHfUG-oOnBkbGuvD2BGE9Fkn8/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr6SJgnsOI0xUpHLAybHtPNsWd72kCBIPy3LKoB0mwTmj_r_4cnXf47AS0jqFspcrEdvAP41QLvzBxmdcyLMMe09sQKAxQOq46FNvtk3WaxdGh5TldYSLqaTTV3-3YzkMU5NxOVnYevfI0/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr6SJgnsOI0xUpHLAybHtPNsWd72kCBIPy3LKoB0mwTmj_r_4cnXf47AS0jqFspcrEdvAP41QLvzBxmdcyLMMe09sQKAxQOq46FNvtk3WaxdGh5TldYSLqaTTV3-3YzkMU5NxOVnYevfI0/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOKSx2SgrQypEuqjZlxvV8yYPNP79KsFgpOPPDe3_bXFc2MMNtsLBqdrGhOutB6ripkoRB0zVag5qoFHeq1vKpq3TxffIPlgUyKD04-UA1kq9uBKpFbSGyR9N1RDeecHqLRfhT78mtGLL/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOKSx2SgrQypEuqjZlxvV8yYPNP79KsFgpOPPDe3_bXFc2MMNtsLBqdrGhOutB6ripkoRB0zVag5qoFHeq1vKpq3TxffIPlgUyKD04-UA1kq9uBKpFbSGyR9N1RDeecHqLRfhT78mtGLL/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+103.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> 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;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></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><br />--</div><div><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Write Away

“ “Why do you not write them yourself?” I said, with some bitterness.” [ABBE]  The "game" that Sherlockians pursue is shrouded in ...

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by Scott Monty

One of the Great Sherlockian Hoaxes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"he had fooled us" [3GAR] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnhZv3qGfSpvKhNrvEo8z85t9ezC1YTIVqx9GfcDzJn4b7xBDz0na0FBSsp49T0HeMNuLDgx0OrEtuHRNpR8ngHgSWDpROMZSOvLkqPfQOpNxKc44Uu45O5B_FTii3qyoCt_qgr1rwT1o/s605/BOSC+10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="594" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnhZv3qGfSpvKhNrvEo8z85t9ezC1YTIVqx9GfcDzJn4b7xBDz0na0FBSsp49T0HeMNuLDgx0OrEtuHRNpR8ngHgSWDpROMZSOvLkqPfQOpNxKc44Uu45O5B_FTii3qyoCt_qgr1rwT1o/w628-h640/BOSC+10.jpg" width="628" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The world of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle seems to be rife with hoaxes.</p><p>From nearly the very beginning of the Canon, we find Sherlock Holmes counseling clients who had fallen for one con or another. Jabez Wilson got lured away from his pawn shop whilst his handy half-pay assistant tunneled his way to the bank across the street, in search of gold ("The Red-Headed League").</p><p>The ruse was repeated in "The Three Garridebs," when Nathan Garrideb was sent on a wild goose chase in search of a third member of his family's name, in order to claim a massive estate.</p><p>Conan Doyle himself was no stranger to hoaxes, having fallen for the whimsical photographs of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies" target="_blank">Cottingley Faeries</a>, and being implicated in the <a href="https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Piltdown_Man_Hoax" target="_blank">Piltdown Man hoax</a> (although never proven to be involved). Nor was he the pen behind the so-called <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/02/conan-doyle-didnt-write-lost-sherlock.html#.YGXiD-hKjb0" target="_blank">lost Sherlock Holmes story</a> found a few years ago.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeLAoq3FXnGk2d-4uEbMJu5aXMyyD9K4BlFg6-uimuDkWgkH4EXuJUICM8Io2tGbOx4XLRU2_CWT7fDaChC0xW5S4sP8ImaE6-jjdGeWHo2YoMcKA9IPDUIHUwvUTKllFjAu1AX5Qu1jyN/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeLAoq3FXnGk2d-4uEbMJu5aXMyyD9K4BlFg6-uimuDkWgkH4EXuJUICM8Io2tGbOx4XLRU2_CWT7fDaChC0xW5S4sP8ImaE6-jjdGeWHo2YoMcKA9IPDUIHUwvUTKllFjAu1AX5Qu1jyN/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Maria Konnikova is no stranger to the con, as it was a topic she researched for her book <i><a href="https://amzn.to/31AqDBQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Confidence Game</a></i>. We interviewed her about this topic on <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose91" target="_blank">Episode 91</a>, including asking the question "Was Sherlock Holmes a con man?"</p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249432545&color=ff5500" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="ihearofsherlock">ihearofsherlock</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/episode-91-the-confidence-game" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Episode 91: The Confidence Game">Episode 91: The Confidence Game</a></div><p><br /></p><p>But our favorite Sherlockian hoax of all time happened 14 years ago on this date. It was 2007, and rumors were rife with what the next Sherlock Holmes project would be. The 2009 Warner Bros. film <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> starring Robert Downey, Jr. was still in its earliest stages, and an actor hadn't yet been chosen to play the lead role, although Russell Crowe's name had been floated.</p><p>We dug back into our Sherlockian entertainment memory and conjured up <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/04/is-long-row-veil_1.html#.YGXhKehKjb1" target="_blank">Nicholas Rowe</a>, who had played the part in <i>Young Sherlock Holmes</i>, positing that he would be of an age that would make him a believable adult Holmes ("<a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/04/is-long-row-veil_1.html#.Uuc9SsQo5w3" target="_blank">Nicholas Rowe to Reprise His Role as Sherlock Holmes</a>").</p><p>Mind you, this was a decade before he would play the part in a scene in <i>Mr. Holmes</i>, starring Ian McKellen.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZBJ17nGiP2FGZqdn3HLH0c9CiTVsr0_1Sz3Jo2ZGZACMB1YJYyRJRSYRBWBeXK2Trrjzp_4AC-qvWxR7tuR3gEBSmtae5MHCwrhQfruMqYTEzxY0GmQC7aQ9I6X-ZvMV_DnjS5wlLxL9/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="599" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZBJ17nGiP2FGZqdn3HLH0c9CiTVsr0_1Sz3Jo2ZGZACMB1YJYyRJRSYRBWBeXK2Trrjzp_4AC-qvWxR7tuR3gEBSmtae5MHCwrhQfruMqYTEzxY0GmQC7aQ9I6X-ZvMV_DnjS5wlLxL9/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Of course, the attentive readers would have picked up on the reference at the bottom of the article: "<a href="http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/" target="_blank">Background info</a>," which pointed to the Museum of Hoaxes.</p><p>And the date of the article: April 1.</p><p>The result was that the piece was picked up by some in the media before they figured out it was a hoax.</p><p>We had <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/04/had-fooled-us-3gar_2.html#.YGXmnuhKjb0" target="_blank">a good laugh about it</a> anyway.</p><p>Stay alert, friends.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>

One of the Great Sherlockian Hoaxes

"he had fooled us" [3GAR]  The world of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle seems to be rife with hoaxes. From nearly the very ...

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Episode 213: Corporals, Colonels, and Commissionaires

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"a fair balance of military power." [SECO] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitJTAIF3xWv_NCGrB9duH6ySD2V1oGFS-ZqqUlaPq8cO1U11D4DPrk2fSLsppQbgkJ7ceDpvWecGe13AyFAmCVvvJaXCE7ys6CrbML4OXK5zk7QkYOfeP2RoiyHmakfQizSWqM_zjfZntz/s1838/Corporals+Colonels+and+Commissionaires+header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="1838" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitJTAIF3xWv_NCGrB9duH6ySD2V1oGFS-ZqqUlaPq8cO1U11D4DPrk2fSLsppQbgkJ7ceDpvWecGe13AyFAmCVvvJaXCE7ys6CrbML4OXK5zk7QkYOfeP2RoiyHmakfQizSWqM_zjfZntz/w640-h430/Corporals+Colonels+and+Commissionaires+header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The BSI Professions Series marches on, this time in military time. The latest volume in the series is <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2020/12/28/corporals-colonels/" target="_blank">Corporals, Colonels, and Commissionaires: Military and the Sherlockian Canon</a></i>, edited by Michael Quigley, BSI ("A Large, Brass-Bound Safe") and Marsha Pollak, BSI ("A Small But Select Library").</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Together, they tell us the story behind the book: the curious case of the new editor, a unique and helpful structure for the chapters, the classification of the military as a profession, and how Watson's central role in the Sherlock Holmes stories was also rooted in the military.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Marsha's and Michael's backgrounds served them well in their editorial roles, and the book is a must-have for anyone interested in the Canon and the military.</div><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz winner this time will win a mystery prize from our vaults.  Answers are due by April 14, 2021 at 11:59 a.m.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgFfguVliY6KHwZzALwL9LIpICRVSB0RWL-XbyW9_iHVsK5NZe145lYBczf3JLntuXKWPgF-l9qd3sYVxRhWkbTwQIQnB0J6UQCblFgMK3XOYF8PkpmNHeHdua23z7iLalO1JpNobAKGQ/s2048/Corporals+Colonels+and+Commissionaires+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1356" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgFfguVliY6KHwZzALwL9LIpICRVSB0RWL-XbyW9_iHVsK5NZe145lYBczf3JLntuXKWPgF-l9qd3sYVxRhWkbTwQIQnB0J6UQCblFgMK3XOYF8PkpmNHeHdua23z7iLalO1JpNobAKGQ/w265-h400/Corporals+Colonels+and+Commissionaires+cover.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><p>Information on sponsors, links, and notes available below.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 213: Corporals, Colonels, and Commissionaires

"a fair balance of military power." [SECO]  The BSI Professions Series marches on, this time in military time. The latest volume i...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Debrief

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“I shall be brief, and yet exact</span>” [FINA]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXc-3JtM_VTlNoPBHRxFFCgViSzRgAMaPah5pPDZTlBloD3oXYXZmv9AHmLLoEZPdeSwIfO_RPRyJSrS32XWdmgQROdV9qYDBB0huPacZFvvxKYX9DYiXpFD-hLVj3oIzpCUHLKE6KmikM/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+102.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXc-3JtM_VTlNoPBHRxFFCgViSzRgAMaPah5pPDZTlBloD3oXYXZmv9AHmLLoEZPdeSwIfO_RPRyJSrS32XWdmgQROdV9qYDBB0huPacZFvvxKYX9DYiXpFD-hLVj3oIzpCUHLKE6KmikM/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+102.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Writing an essay can be difficult, particularly when left with little to the imagination.</div><div><br /></div><div>Such is the case here at I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere. Thankfully, the Baker Street Elementary team gives us something to ponder every two weeks.</div><div><br /></div>This time, our thoughts turned to Sherlock Holmes and the number of words that Conan Doyle used in each story.<div><br /></div><div>While we didn't unearth a source of word counts of each story in the Canon [<i>Our mind hazily recalls  such a reference; any feedback from our readership on where we might find such a reference would be most welcome. – Ed.</i>], the shortest story would have been in the realm of the Baker Street Elementary assignment.</div><div><br /></div><div>When we include the Apocrypha (those stories that Conan Doyle wrote outside of the traditional 60 stories), his custom story for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary%27s_Dolls%27_House" target="_blank">Queen Mary's dollhouse</a> is the clear winner. "How Watson Learned the Trick" comes in at just 503 words. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course, it may take you longer to read, as you might need to locate a strong magnifying glass first. Squint a little bit and see if you can make out the short essay at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDBiqaNN80-fS3v0QsoM75UaGvr0d-F7XCiafs0MlVWRY5o-H0VMzyJYY0SoGwph8mxwpGpKsV5cPwM5RDCvb4gRYd5yqVM5xaLT_Cm9cU1gqxX5zV6B9e5fQhL3Mcth0OcrXZ2suunwQ/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+102.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDBiqaNN80-fS3v0QsoM75UaGvr0d-F7XCiafs0MlVWRY5o-H0VMzyJYY0SoGwph8mxwpGpKsV5cPwM5RDCvb4gRYd5yqVM5xaLT_Cm9cU1gqxX5zV6B9e5fQhL3Mcth0OcrXZ2suunwQ/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+102.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXoLN-3tf5oL903lCEPJ1xF6xl1FUCAYkcfqXYn6SZFfW1KwhV6iex1fGVjt4smC4V1mvnC_xywrDBND1SXdH4u6peczz0eKaoVowDuOj-2Vz1fgS39X7VK41n8oZFgAaMkNGbSGuvM3k/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+102.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXoLN-3tf5oL903lCEPJ1xF6xl1FUCAYkcfqXYn6SZFfW1KwhV6iex1fGVjt4smC4V1mvnC_xywrDBND1SXdH4u6peczz0eKaoVowDuOj-2Vz1fgS39X7VK41n8oZFgAaMkNGbSGuvM3k/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+102.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTl9PTLRFG7Yzh29dxXb2gJ4loIAWtm039s9qoDc91WAgsJUq0sW90mPrNi1STa-wYWGeV85xUbmsljQLOPo65y1U_kQVuLPaGe1AmIyWIgSzDrb5Ao5B6jlpo6nujfL3jNlJ9xI91wcE/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+102.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTl9PTLRFG7Yzh29dxXb2gJ4loIAWtm039s9qoDc91WAgsJUq0sW90mPrNi1STa-wYWGeV85xUbmsljQLOPo65y1U_kQVuLPaGe1AmIyWIgSzDrb5Ao5B6jlpo6nujfL3jNlJ9xI91wcE/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+102.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> 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;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></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><br />--</div><div><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Debrief

“I shall be brief, and yet exact ” [FINA]   Writing an essay can be difficult, particularly when left with little to the imagination. Such i...

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Episode 212: All Things ACD

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"he does not care for general practice, which distracts him from his literary work" [MISS] </h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrMUR2sDX85Rk1-cwDCJulnAdbawYZ-Nhu-X4kszJiKkSbW7MZljMSqiENN9UTzrNa_a680_bzzZPBoJemeYi5MIcQ2LsAKLCCDy80PPcAOVTFGmxwtwJmf-0VHkFR3Lptm_X7gpTYr_TZ9iZjxLe6NqE9hfGNX1DKuHB7OXNyFebN9HZ6vYK0hIyIQ/s1068/ihearofsherlock212%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="1068" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrMUR2sDX85Rk1-cwDCJulnAdbawYZ-Nhu-X4kszJiKkSbW7MZljMSqiENN9UTzrNa_a680_bzzZPBoJemeYi5MIcQ2LsAKLCCDy80PPcAOVTFGmxwtwJmf-0VHkFR3Lptm_X7gpTYr_TZ9iZjxLe6NqE9hfGNX1DKuHB7OXNyFebN9HZ6vYK0hIyIQ/w640-h262/ihearofsherlock212%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/43021516@N06/8346428573" target="_blank">Letter from Conan Doyle to H. Greenough Smith, c. 1901</a></i><span style="font-size: small;"> (Special Collections Toronto Public Libraries - Flickr)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There must be something in the water. Or the air. Have you noticed an uptick of interest in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lately?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We spoke with Mark Jones of the <a href="https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/" target="_blank">Doings of Doyle</a> podcast last season. Since then, a new society has met, another has been formed, and an academic journal has begun its path.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To help us understand the impetus behind this movement, we invited three well-informed and energetic individuals who are responsible for some of it: Ross Davies, BSI ("The Temple"), Cliff Goldfarb ("Fordham the Horsham Lawyer"), and Ashley Polasek, BSI ("Singlestick"). Each of them plays a unique but essential role in the development of these public-facing entities, and they each help us understand how it all fits together. </div><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz winner this time will receive the official lapel pin of The Literary Agents (seen below).  Answers are due by March 29, 2021 at 11:59 a.m.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9C9BSGCmQJddeVi9KY8rDu1SucSPnV-In8S1g2DcLYkXsmgIneWKWdkMdkA32FJJHg_pE1twEYkxu6f5_Muo0xpQkcv7jXCOrR86oocb7AxrF7a1qca2dn2MoYu_Z_pjXqYNHGS_n66W_/s843/Litertary+Agents+Pin.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="843" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9C9BSGCmQJddeVi9KY8rDu1SucSPnV-In8S1g2DcLYkXsmgIneWKWdkMdkA32FJJHg_pE1twEYkxu6f5_Muo0xpQkcv7jXCOrR86oocb7AxrF7a1qca2dn2MoYu_Z_pjXqYNHGS_n66W_/s320/Litertary+Agents+Pin.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image credit: Charles Prepolec (Facebook)</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>Information on sponsors, links, and notes available below.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 212: All Things ACD

"he does not care for general practice, which distracts him from his literary work" [MISS]  Letter from Conan Doyle to H. Greenoug...

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Baker Street Elementary – Empirical Formula

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“</span>which extends over many nations” [SIGN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_HQWpaBp8jOI3_OO95GwzjeWim35aWzcoLY46_tKPH57rPyYIgPJ3r_lmnIqeaOqtB8yYXyz2pXG2MnYI59jT26QCl_MXpE6EXzi0moDyJNxlgy5HI5xdIbOfRQC6ldudhrPXy6E_epz/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_HQWpaBp8jOI3_OO95GwzjeWim35aWzcoLY46_tKPH57rPyYIgPJ3r_lmnIqeaOqtB8yYXyz2pXG2MnYI59jT26QCl_MXpE6EXzi0moDyJNxlgy5HI5xdIbOfRQC6ldudhrPXy6E_epz/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In the very first issue of <i>The Baker Street Journal</i>, Rolfe Boswell took on a geographical challenge in "In Uffish Thought."</div><div><br /></div><div>He noted that there was no island of Uffa listed in any kind of reference book in the New York Public Library. This was of course in reference to this excerpt from the opening of "The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips": </div><div><blockquote><div>"The year ’87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque “Sophy Anderson” of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa..."</div></blockquote></div><div>While there was no island mentioned, Uffa did warrant two entries in the Encyclopedia Britannica:</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Tradition tells that Uffa, who probably threw up the earthworks called the Castle Hill, established the capital of East Anglia at Thetford about 575.” </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>“According to tradition, Uffa made a fortification at Norwich about 570.”</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div>Boswell very cleverly determines that the mound and castle could be considered like an island and therefore might very well be the reference.</div><div><br /></div><div>In his <i><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&an=Julian+Wolff&tn=Sherlockian+atlas&kn=&isbn=" target="_blank">Sherlockian Atlas</a></i>, Julian Wolff identified it in Plate IV: "The Map That Was Wanted: THE ISLAND OF UFA (sic) As Charted by the U.S. Navy.</div><div><br /></div><div>He noted that it was part of the Solomon Islands, specifically the Russell Islands Eastern Part: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/p2k3TGcom7L1b9wh6" target="_blank">Ufa Island</a> (now called Ufaon). Based on its remote location in the South Pacific, the Grice Patersons must have had some remarkable adventures indeed while there.</div><div><br />But the minds at Baker Street Elementary seem to be wandering a bit...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSAQEOTbNcPlj8ngAktb7Uu3e61bH6ciwnNnS0VgMrDy-C3_oQY9orqHTPzDY9B8kN7c7MHPc5KGWL-vNjZhnB1Jx_MIbpAKdWv95gciaO75WpaptAigZyojQz8obYguutORwzpZpAMpjj/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSAQEOTbNcPlj8ngAktb7Uu3e61bH6ciwnNnS0VgMrDy-C3_oQY9orqHTPzDY9B8kN7c7MHPc5KGWL-vNjZhnB1Jx_MIbpAKdWv95gciaO75WpaptAigZyojQz8obYguutORwzpZpAMpjj/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggW_hccB-be18NgXUcZiIE-IMsWXoizZM1Pvyvqq4BLP2LgApcKllokWKrN3xJvXhmnBx891bQ-KVaX-Uy-vhjMPRrZIXdp5J_Bi-1U0EJI4f5-8JaR4gpFI7Bws-rup22qNmf0KoZi3Ct/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggW_hccB-be18NgXUcZiIE-IMsWXoizZM1Pvyvqq4BLP2LgApcKllokWKrN3xJvXhmnBx891bQ-KVaX-Uy-vhjMPRrZIXdp5J_Bi-1U0EJI4f5-8JaR4gpFI7Bws-rup22qNmf0KoZi3Ct/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmq6rV-scbAuAhWdtz4OuCz-L-FWP-w3DjRDNaFofOc0ilYmg2tI6Fchz-VcD2fbOkR4mdvkYaZCYNyUSHuow8seCbEMthHXYCliJm2GX409X1lNZDisKiLiu8LSrsOk5U9fOQoyXxWGm/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmq6rV-scbAuAhWdtz4OuCz-L-FWP-w3DjRDNaFofOc0ilYmg2tI6Fchz-VcD2fbOkR4mdvkYaZCYNyUSHuow8seCbEMthHXYCliJm2GX409X1lNZDisKiLiu8LSrsOk5U9fOQoyXxWGm/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JU7VZv17Mn-RHOko7T1p1vMxnDjN3dhxkPlNk3qQDu0iAWVEOztXCK-vgPoSzhlhFDJg6kmAkfRXyGM4Fg-RaWywFnwgwnXEos35IQR90ktbPXKPp0f6uiQbxRI3N9sh5x63ZCXg8WN6/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JU7VZv17Mn-RHOko7T1p1vMxnDjN3dhxkPlNk3qQDu0iAWVEOztXCK-vgPoSzhlhFDJg6kmAkfRXyGM4Fg-RaWywFnwgwnXEos35IQR90ktbPXKPp0f6uiQbxRI3N9sh5x63ZCXg8WN6/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIz2YSFMZhYirhkDBD_okPWSyfMLN0llodlrWu5AngkshmasmGWvJGNololhJIinLEFrg5frboFGQ6S2jm7guQu1CmLCoSee48v59zaXuXnvGU7QV6doN__E8iA_UiYz3UUzfNF2IP0xY/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIz2YSFMZhYirhkDBD_okPWSyfMLN0llodlrWu5AngkshmasmGWvJGNololhJIinLEFrg5frboFGQ6S2jm7guQu1CmLCoSee48v59zaXuXnvGU7QV6doN__E8iA_UiYz3UUzfNF2IP0xY/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+101.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> 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 – Empirical Formula

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