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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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the best listening for the old time radio shows. Adam does a great job
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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 radio mysteries, this podcast is for you.
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You won't be disappointed, Thank you very much. And then we have
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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 back here next Thursday for another episode of
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