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today's episode of Sherlock Holmes The Blue
Carbuncle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,

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The Original and Immortal stories of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle dramatized Daniel, with Sir

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Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson and Sir
John Gielgood in the role of Sherlock Holmes.

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Christmas Christmas in Our London of the
eighteen paces, with a sparkle round

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the gas lights and the glow on
the hurrying passes by, laden with mysterious

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passes, the candled shop windows heaped
with poise, with tinkling handsomes hastening past

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with a million tall trees and a
million tall boys, Woodmans Christmas and in

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the glow and glory of it.
I called at Baker Street to see my

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old friends shall out homes. Compliments
of the season, Holmes and who what

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who's that? Compliments of the season? Holmes? Oh, Watson, with

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you believe me? How do you
do it? Ah? I said,

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I produced cold we hire in the
time of year. But don't you believe

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in the Christmas spirit? Yes,
yes, of course I do, my

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dear fellow. He thenly that I'm
profoundly engaged. My mind was elsewhere.

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It closed the door, Watson,
come in because it confounded dims from the

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street. Yes, that's much better. Sit down, won't you? Of

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course you're engaged at home, and
I better not say I have still some

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visits to make to my patient.
No, no, no, no,

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of course you know how glad I
always am to have your old friend to

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discuss my problems with. Now help
us up to a whiskey and sirda Watson,

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thank you, and just tell me
what you think of that? Think

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of what that hanging on the back
of the chair. I've been contemplating it

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for the last half hour, but
it's only I had a simple hard black

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head. Just so get us sit
down with the bay by the part and

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telling me all about it, and
I'll bruise some punch. Excellent and excellent

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Watson, you know where everything is, of course, And meanwhile i'll tell

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you the tale of this hat.
And I asked you to consider it.

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Watson not as a bettered old billycock, but has an intellectual problem. I

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don't know if I will not make
greater first time. I'm ready where,

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Yes, here it is, you
know, Peterson, the commissioner, the

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hotel on the corner. But of
course why is it his heart? No,

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he's clothed clothing, Well he found
it. The nay is unknown.

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It is arrived here Watson in companible
a fine fat goose, which I have

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no doubt at this moment is roasting
media in front of the Peterson's pie,

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a goose on their head. That
the connections of this. But but where

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where where do you put the lemons, my dear feller lemons? Oh,

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try the gazoge in stem. No, well then that hideous bamboo smoking companion,

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and MISSU Hudson Willins has come sitting
down toside the sober every afternoon.

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Yea, Now, effects are peas
Watson. Peterson, who's a very honest

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fellow, as you know, was
returning about four o'clock this morning from some

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small seasonal jollification, and walk homewards
down the Tottenham Court Road at the big

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bully on my hands are full certainly
wasn't in front of him. There in

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the gaslight, Peterson suddenly saw a
tallish man with a stick, walking with

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a slight stagger and carrying a white
boose over his shoulder. As he reached

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the corner of water on the street, this man was suddenly set upon by

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a crowd of roughs. One of
them knocked his hat off, and as

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he raised his stick to defend himself, he accidentally swung it against a shop

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window and smashed the glass up a
head and next home. But Peterson,

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who was still reading his Commissionaire's uniform, rushed to the man's assistance. But

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the fellow, shocked at breaking a
window and seeing a man in uniform running

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up to him, dropped his goose
and flip through his heels. The rust

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did the same, leaving Peterson master
of the field of battle. He brought

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the bird and hat to me.
There was a card on the bird's leg

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with poor missus Henry Baker written on
it, and the initials HB are written

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on the label inside the head Uh
huh. But of course there are some

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thousands of people named Baker in this
great city of ours. So it has

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been my little occupation for this last
hour or so to try and deduce the

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exact identity of this one from his
head. Watson, the owner of this

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hat, Watson, highly intellectual,
fairly well to do, but in the

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space of the last three years,
seems to have fallen on evil days.

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He used to have foresight, that
he has less now than formerly. I

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suspect he's taken to drink, which
would also perhaps to counter the fact that

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his wife no longer lovely. Dear
middle aged goes out little, has brizzled

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hair, which he annoints with lime
cream, and has been to the barber's

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lately. It is also extremely improbable
that he has gas laid on in his

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house. I've seen you on this
kind of thing before, of course,

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but this is going to wow his
wife home. You said she stopped loving

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him. The hat hasn't been brushed
for weeks, My dear fellow. Ah,

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Well, when I see you,
Watson, that's such an accumulation of

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dust on your respectable headgear. I
shall expect you to be returning to your

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old quarters here within the next day
or time. Oh, you've answer for

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everything, wonderful one except the guess. The fact that there's no guess laid

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on in his house. Now,
that really is impossible, not at all.

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One tallow stain or even two might
come by chance. But when I

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see no less than five, I
think there can be little doubt that the

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owner must be gotten frequent contact with
burning tallow Yes, he probably walks upstairs

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at night with his head in one
hand and a guttering candle in the other.

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Anyhow, he never got tallow stains
from my guess yet satisfied a promise.

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Oh most elementary, my dear boss, Well, it seems well a

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waste of your talents. But there's
did no crime committed, nothing but the

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last of a Christmas goose. That
goose, My dear fellow, Hello,

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Hello, what's this? Who is
it? Yes? Come in Peters,

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who's nice, dear Peterson, it's
it's a ghosh? Where has it returned

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to life? And flapped off through
the kitchen window? Not as white as

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a seat sea? Looked at my
white found inside its crop? What look

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this? This is treshed cove.
Indeed, Peterson A pressure stone, one

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of the biggest I've ever seen.
It's more than a precious stone, Watson.

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It's the precious stone, the blue
carbuncle great, the the Countriess of

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more Cars, precisely missing for five
days and with the descriptor thats the every

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morning and the times about it,
and the reward of a thousand pounds for

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its recover a thousand parents lever Duck
a ghost. It's a blue car.

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Yes, yes, I remember nine
lost at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. That's it.

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And they've arrested some plumber fellow who
supposed to have taken it from the

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Countess's jewel case. Thousand towns.
Oh I was reading about his owner just

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now, Yes, here we are
here, we are the Hotel Cosmopolitan,

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Joel Robert It. John Horner,
plumber twenty six, was brought up on

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the charge of having abstracted from the
Joel case of the Countess of more Car

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the valuable jim known as the blue
Carbank. What else, Watson? It

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seems that this fellow Horner was taken
up to the Countess's room by her maid,

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a girl called Catherine Cusack, to
do some kind of repair. When

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they hid attendant at a hotel went
in a fellow called James Rider to see

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if the work was finished. He
found the joel case was lying empty and

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the horner had gone. They gave
the alarm and term I was fanged by

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the police. They're arrested him.
The case is being referred to the assizers.

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Well, then, the only problem
remaining to be solved is the sequence

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of events leading from an empty drill
case and a hotel room at one end

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to the crop of a goose in
the Tottenham Court Road at the other.

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Just give me a pencil and that
step of paper, will you, Peterson?

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Oh yes, oh John, Yes, are you're going to do a

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Holmes? Find the owner of this
hat h b. Henry Baker? Yes,

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he began as a joke and now
I've become a mystery. We'll try

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the simplest method first, an advertisement. How's this Watson reading found at the

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corner of wat on the street,
a goose and a black felt had Mister

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Henry Baker can have the same by
applying at six thirties this evening at two

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to one Baker Street, heard and
concise, I think yes, if you've

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quite recovered from your order stand When
Peterson so just run down to the adretisment

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office and have this put in all
the evening papers, will you all of

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them? All of them? Oh? And by the way, Peterson,

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on your way back, just see
if you can buy another Goose Goosen.

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Yes, as near as possible,
the same size as that one that your

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family is about to be. You're
going to keep the station, yes,

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yeah, in my strong box.
And I'll just jump a note for the

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Countess to say we've found it.
Hur you Peterson, Yes, of course

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time of Christ. No, no, the gays, Peterson. M oh,

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mister Baker, if I'm not mistaken, who come in? Mister Baker,

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Oh, thank you? Sit down
if you praise it down. This

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is my good friend, doctor Watson. How do you do meant? I

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help you to a whiskey and soda, and mister Baker, oh, oh

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thank you. I leave out the
soda if I made it to home.

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So, of course, you see, Watson, gratulations homes the very man

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as you've described them. I beg
your part, oh not himself, and

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give us a private matter. Mister
Baker, you come heaven to an answer

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to my advertisement? Is this your
hat? Oh? Yes, sir,

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undoubted and pray allow me to return
it to you with my compliments the bird.

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I'm afraid we've been compelled to eat
what, oh dear careful carefulness today,

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Hey, you spill your drink.
It was quite a necessary I'm afraid,

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since in these modern days we seem
to have lost the art of reguduration,

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in which are Elizabeth and ancestors.
However, there's this other bird here

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on the sideboard, to which are
extremely welcome as a replacement. That's uncommonly

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kind of. Of course, we
still have the feathers and the crop of

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your own bird, if you'd like
to take them too, oh, annest

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mentor, but this is yet a
member of my late acquaintance. Are hardly

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likely to be a much use to
me. But but I will have one

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more drink if I knew me very
small. No, certainly, what is

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trouble you, mister Baker? And
tell me where you got that uncommonly time

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bird of yours? Not a toaster. I'm a member of the Christmas Boost

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Club, run by the landlord of
the Alpha Inn near the Museum the Alpha

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in Watson Ah. I got it
there in exchange for my weekly sortances,

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which I've been paying since last April. That's good night for twelve shillings lust

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about he yes, I therely am
mist grateful to you for your kindness,

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sir. I was set on by
some rats in the street and I lost

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it. All's well, that ends
well, mister Baker. We were fortunate

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enough to find it. So here's
your hat, and here is your new

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bird. Oh. I put the
old ticket onto it, the one that

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was tied to the other goose's leg, marked to missus Henry A. Baker.

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Oh, how nice. I'm much
a blight, sir. Well,

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not at all a peace offering,
mister Baker. A piece of brings in

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plain kid sect to my better heart. Quite good night, sir, and

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thank you again, well so much
for mister Henry Baker. Wats that's quite

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evidently he was innocent, of course, from the crap to relate, I

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mean about the feathers from the clops. Evident, I suggest, Watson,

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we turned that the post dinner dos
into a late supper. I'll tell missus

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Hudson, she'll forgive us, and
in the meanwhile, let's follow up the

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two of the Alpha. By all
means, homes, I confess I'm most

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even chea because I'm a baby can
have to battle our way out through those

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infernal weights who are making nights of
hideous on our humble doorstep. Come Watson,

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we worked to do this Christmas evening. It was a bitter night,

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and so we drew on our ulsters
and wrapped our mattlers about outforts. We

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swung through the doctor's quarters of Wimpole
Street and Harley Street, and served along

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the great telefa of Oxford Street,
where the crowds were thinning. Now to

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Bloomsbury, and there, in a
forgotten corner we found the Altar Inn,

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and from the rosy Land Board learnt
that the geese for his Christmas club had

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come from a dealer named breckon Ridge
in Covent Garden. Yes, here's the

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market homes, Robin Vani of the
goose dealer brecon Ridge. Watson, Yeah,

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there it is. You see the
largest stall of the lot. There's

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the name written up over. Yes, just in time. They're closing up.

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Horsey looking fellow, isn't he you
say? Horse? Good for you,

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Watson, That fact might come in
new school. Oh good evening,

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mister breckon Ridge. It's a cold
night, cold enough I'll reckon to get

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finished sold out of geese. I
see, let's have five hundred tomorrow morning.

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That's no good. I'm afraid we
want one to night. Here there's

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someone that stall over there with a
guest player. Now excuse movie. We

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were recommended to a particularly mister breckon
Ridge, oh oh by by the land

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lord of the alpha alien bloom me
b Yes, you supplied him with some

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incomparable birds. He told us where
did you get them from? By the

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way, now look here, what
exactly are you driving at Mistah? Why?

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Nothing? Only that I wanted to
know who sold you those geese?

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Deskip or Tellier they you're another one? The pest to me? Are you

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another one? What do you mean
when aren't I good money? Fricking?

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That should be the end of our
Sorry, but it's where are those geese?

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And who you just allows geese too? Till I'm sick of it?

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You think that's not with the only
geese in the world. A why some

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folk keep on at me about them? Were I going to show them?

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We've nothing to do with any other
people who've been making inquired as mister Breckenhood.

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In fact, all I'm concerned with
there's a little bet I've made a

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bet. That's so, I'm already
to bet my opinion, and I've better

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fiver with my friend the doctor here. But the bird we ep from the

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alpha was confibrate. You've lost your
father then? Because it was town b

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No, no, no, it
was nothing of the case. Tell you,

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cor do you think you know more
about thousand? Or do when I've

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been in the tige Maine? And
boy, but I tell you it's a

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confibrate each town here? Will you
take a bet with me? Too?

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Good pleasure a sovereign every penny of
it? Right, it's on? Nah,

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where's that ruddy boot? Co'm on? Ah? Here it is here?

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Just let it now, mister cock
short? Or what's this? That's

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the list of the folk I buy
from? See and what I do with

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the stuff when I bought it?
Now? Then look at that name there?

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I just say, can you see
it? Watson in this life?

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Yes? Yes, Miss is Oakshot, isn't it? That's right? Miss

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Outshot? And what's the address?
I one hundred and seventeen Brixton Road,

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eggan Portlet Supplier, Brixton Road,
Mister Ian Mightley? And what's the last

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saint me? Andrew? I December
the twenty second twenty four Geese at seven

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and six. I know what I
sold to. I sold to mister Windy

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Gate of the Alpha at shilling right. And so what are you say now

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miscubling me polting pace here? Well, I must say I could have sworn

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of this country road. All right, you win, mister breckon Ridge.

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There's your sovereign. Come along,
doctor you five. I think, yes,

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you do, easy money, That's
what I say. Well, Gretny

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Jakes co here is this? Here
is Breganry Come well, wats let's stand

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here by the guest lamp for a
moment. I want to think ten you

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are done nothing about it? What's
going on? Was some kind of a

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borrow or breckon store? Oh yes, souder he is program red face tiller.

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You see Breconridge is threatening in.
I tell you why, I've head

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enough for you ain'tel blooming geek you
sign it for You've got to take by

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the answer, you ain't anybody else. One of them Geese was matin.

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I, well, you're gonna ask
me. He's blooming out shot for it.

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He told me to ask. Then
you're gonna ask the king a batch

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of all like here, you get
all can going on? I got to

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dart man looking girls coming this way
watching it looks at me, say Archerster

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Brixton, go on me to color
him turned by if he gets nasty.

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He looks a bit of a shrimp
done. Not much trouble here, and

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my man, not so fast.
I'm just like a word with you here?

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Who are you? What do you
want? I couldn't do no over

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here any honor disagreement with a good
salesman over there, and I think I

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might be able to assist you.
Now, dear me, how could you

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know anything? Who are you?
Ain't? My name is Shell Holmes,

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and it's my business to know what
other people don't know. Like I can't

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do anything about this. On the
contrary, you're trying to place some geese

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which was sold by missus Oakshot to
that man there who sold them to the

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landlord of the Alpha in who got
rhythm of them through his Boost club of

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with mister Henry Baker is a member. What hi's your love, daddy man?

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I've been looking for, mister Holmes. Oh what can all they tell

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you? How much it means to
make Watson be good enough to signal for

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a four Wheeler, will you,
I think my favorite. We're going to

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discuss this home mother in some cozy
place rather than in the crowded street.

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We'll go to my room, shall
we. Oh? What's your name?

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May I ask? My name's Robinson? John Robinson? No, no,

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no, the real name. It's
always so awkward with business with an aliens.

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All right then, James Rider head
attenders of the hotel Cosmopolitans believe right.

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So yeah, you have the cab
Watson coming over home, lendid splendid.

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Now would you mind just standing on
mister Ride on the other side and

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just taken by the arm, will
you? He might have a sensor to

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go for the little walk. Well, here we are all looks very seasonalle

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this weather. Do put some more
colon, would you Watson? Now?

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Then pray take the basket chair,
mister Rider, you look chilly. I'd

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have some more punch, I think, Holmes. We could all do with

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a warning. Thank you Watson.
If you will, you will find the

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lemons behind you on the gazogene stems
and the nut makes scraper there behind the

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person slipper, or you might hand
it to me when you're the fellow.

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I'd like some tobacco. Thank you
so much. Well now, mister Rider,

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Yes, do you want to know
what became of those geese, mister

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Rider, or rather of that goose? For I fancy it was only one

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that you were interested in, a
white one with a black bar because its

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tail you could only tell me,
so I'd be that grateful. It's really

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mind us, he said. It
was so by mistake, and a most

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remarkable bird, if I may say
so, mister Rider. Watson, hand

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me over my strong box. If
you did. Yeah, that bird laid

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an egg after it was dead,
mister Rider, the bunniest, brightest little

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blue it ever was seen. I
had his head O mercy for eleven.

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The game's up, righter, I
haven't any on your day in the fire.

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Jim Watson's all right, homes,
I've got him almost thinking. Poor

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Ever, I get him a brand
day, poor devil. Hey, heavens

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what a warmer fellow is? He's
not got blood enough to go in front

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of telling me they are man.
Drink it up. Oh, thank you,

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thank you. Whatever I've done,
whatever I don't know, Pepe to

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wear what you've done. Rider.
It only needs one or two more links,

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Watson to make the case complete.
Now, then, Rider, who

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told you of the Countess of Marker's
jowel or the blue carbine? It was

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Katherine qu s exter I spelled.
It was her ideas the Countess is waiting

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made home exactly, And so you
invented some excuse to send that unfortunate young

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Horner into the Countess's hotel room.
And after he was gone, you right

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for the jewel case, raised the
alarm and put the blame under him.

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Yes, right, did suck her? Or for heavens that it hasn't mercy,

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mister Arms, I never went long
before it was coffee was to blame.

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Oh man, it's no good kneeling
to me. He wouldn't show my

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co mercy to Horn, I didn't
you. I'll leave the country. Said

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that the charge of fake down against
him. Watson helping on who steak the

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heavens? See? What I want
to know is how the stone got into

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the goose rider, damn man him
take another drink? Well it was a

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honest take, because he's once,
I added, I wanted to ride it

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somewhere. It seemed to burn a
hole in my pocket, so I went

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to his sister. Just think to
think things out. Your sister Maggie.

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She married a man called up Shop. She fat and sells for the market

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at Brixton Oaks. They well,
I was thinking it out in her yard,

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so he smoking a pipe light.
I remember that Maggie had promised me

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a bird for Christmas, so I
had an idea. Are you forced the

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stone down the bird's throat? Yes? Well, just then Maggie come up

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to see what I was up to
him. The bird got free for a

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minute, but I went and called
it again, and Meggie and I killed

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it. I had a notion to
take the stone to a chap. I

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knew I've been killed one that told
me he knew how to get rid us

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dull and property here. I thought
it'd be safe from any search in the

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birds crop. Yes, he said, even if the police did take it

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into their hands to stop me.
They weren't all that certain about only you.

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See, ah, man, you've
got to kill them. It wasn't

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there. I rushed back to me. By that time, all the other

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birds have gone to market. See
there were two of them. When Bard

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tales your sister, I'd caught the
wrong one. I after they got away

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better that storm that the garden ever
since trying to find out where they've gone.

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Ash. What are you going to
do with Holmes? I'm not quite

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sure, but I think all things
considered, it might be best still get

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out, writer? What you mean? I meant? Get out? Man?

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Oh, I have a blessed your
listen. I don't want to hear

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any more from you. Well,
well, a most singular and whimsical business,

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My dear Watson, my dear homes. Shouldn't you have turned it in?

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Well when all of a sudden done, Watson, I'm did not pertained

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by the police to supplement their deficiency. As soon as I send the stone

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back the place against Horn, I
will collapse at once, will be no

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witness. But you're committing a perone
you now, and it's just possible that

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I'm also saving a soul. I
don't believe you'll go wrong again. It's

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too scared. Besides, Watson,
well, well, this is the season

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of forgiveness, man, Listen,
twelve o'clock it's Christmas Day. Or pass

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me some of that delicious punch of
yours, won't you and tell me you'll

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forgive me too? Forgive you and
heavens then for one for being so surly

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yesterday morning when you offered me the
compliments of the season, I return them

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now with all my heart. And
here's your health the old friend with my

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glass upraised. A Merry Christmas,
my dear Watson, I'm merry Christmas.

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Homes God save her, gracious majesty, Amen, welcome back. Well,

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I definitely prefer this to the John
Stanley version, but that's just my opinion.

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Well acted and U again, just
a very solid John giel good performance

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here. I do apologize. One
thing I regret is not able to bring

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it to you at a more seasonally
appropriate time, but as we've only got

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six more weeks of the show left, will be done in h in I

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believe early July, just not anytime
that's more Christmas Eve to play it.

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So sorry about that, but I
hope you enjoyed the epis so regardless.

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All right, Well, we do
have a listener comment. This one is

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a review from the iTunes app store
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the best listening for the old time
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adding information about the cast as well
as the background on the various programs.

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If you like to listen to old
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You won't be disappointed, Thank you
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this comment from Brian on the last
episode of Frank Race. I like the

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Frank Race stories, but I have
a hard time with the volume during playbacks.

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It needs to be loud to hear
the secondary characters, and the music

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comes in very loud. The other
series don't seem to have these issues.

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Was the Frank Race series done with
a cheaper budget or cheaper studio back then?

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It wasn't that one of the top
syndicators. But I've not heard that

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particular complaint before, so sorry you
had that particular issue with Frank Race.

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All right, well, that actually
does it for today. We will be

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back tomorrow with yours truly Johnny Dowler, and also the second part of Nightmare

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for Night, and then join us
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