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your support. Now we turn back the clock of it to December twenty sixth,
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nineteen forty eight, an episode we skipped. It's time for the adventure
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of the Blue Carbuncle. This is Si Harris with an important announcement about Sherlock
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Holmes, commencing Monday, January third, and each Monday thereafter the Adventures of
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Sherlock Holmes will be heard at a new time over most of these mutual stations.
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Consult your local papers are mutual station. For the time of the broadcast
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from New York City. The makers of clipper Craft clothes were men and more
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than twelve hundred leading retail stores from coast to coast present. Heir Arthur Colan
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Doyle's Immortal character the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, starring John Stanley.
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This week's story the Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. Just look at that
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precious stone, Watson. Incredibly beautiful, so pure, so brilliant. Quite
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but behind the beauty that is evil Watson. This carbuncle was found in southern
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China. And why do they call this stone a carbuncle? Host isn't a
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carbuncle ruby red? Indeed it is, but this is blue, and the
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rarity of it has given it a sinister history. The sake of it,
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there have been several robberties, an acid throwing, a suicide, and two
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murders. If you're resolved to wage a private war on high prices, here's
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a great way to begin. Go to the friendly independent store in your community
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that sells clipper Craft clothes. Select the luxurious clipper Craft suit. The satis
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buys your taste. But note that it costs only forty or forty five dollars.
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It's a terrific value. It has to be Your Clippercraft dealer is one
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of the more than twelve hundred independent stores from coast to coast who concentrate their
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huge purchasing power for the greatest possible savings in production and distribution, so that
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even a rich looking pure worsted suit with the famous Clippercraft label costs only forty
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five dollars. Yes, the store in your community that sells clipper Craft clothes
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is your personal purchasing agent, your private value scout. They picked Clippercraft especially
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to keep you sold, and they're one hundred percent right. You'll find out
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for yourself when you compare Clippercraft with clothes selling for many dollars more pail,
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doctor Watson. Since we're all in a holiday mood, i'd guessed that you've
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deliberately selected the Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle for this Christmas season. Indeed,
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I have, mister Hannas, the adventure was both a Christmas tale and a
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most intriguing crime. It was Christmas morning. It was a glorious London Christmas.
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We'd had a thick blanket of snow on the streets and it glistened in
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the flickering gas lit now. And then a sleigh would dashed by. The
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horses prancing along as though they shared the festive moved shaking their heads. It
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seemed deliberately to jingle the bells on the harness. Stout gentlemen, their cheeks
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as red as could be, a broad grin on their faces, held the
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reins tightly in their mittens, carefully piloting their cargoes of gaily wrapped packages.
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At the corner of Good Street on Tottenham Court Road, a tall man with
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a point of beer, rather impoverished looking, was trudging along. He carried
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a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the corner, a
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group of young rowdis began to tease, Oh yeah, yeah, where are
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you going? Better f your face for Christmas? They go deadly, give
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you a few cones, but I really can't fear them. Oh well they're
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goose, yes Harry, and I FLI me is mergency, must hear plenty
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of spee. It thinks you board the ghost like that? Oh please just
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goose? Is all I can bring home to my family for Christmas. But
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I can knock your head off with a snowboard. Know, he is so
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doll even though he dies a jet sea bull. Come on, you have
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her up, but a few watch his head now he goes my snowball.
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Yeah, oh my good boy, you have knocked it off him up in
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you want to hear about was walking stick of boys swinging a wringing Now feel
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thank you, thank you a doll. My name is Peterson, good heavens,
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the police and the broken dead window. Thank you for assisting with a
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medic Christmas to yourself. Wait, you left your at there on the no,
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you drop your gifts? Come back here, come back, And so
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my dear Watson Peterson was left the victor in the Battle of Puttenham Court Road
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with the stranger's battered hat and his Christmas goose? What did he do at
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the spoils home? He brought them here to Baker's treet, knowing that even
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the smallest problems of interest to me? Why didn't he return the hat and
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the bird to the chap who owned My dear fellow there lives the problem.
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Peterson does not know the identity of the tall ten gentleman who vanished into the
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dark. Wasn't a single clue to the gentleman's identity. By now, Watson,
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you must have realized that there's never a lack of clues, there's only
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a lack of the intelligence necessary to find them. Well, the rightful owner
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of the bird must be found immediately, hopes the poor Devil's lost is Christmas
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dinner? Christmas poppycock? What clues did you find? A small card was
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tied to the bird's left leg. The card read for missus Henry Baker,
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upon the lining of a hat, which I have here in my hand.
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You'll notice the initials H. But as there are some thousands of Bakers,
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it's not easy to restore our property to any one of them. And where
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is the Christmas goose? By? Now? I should say it's fulfilling the
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ultimate destiny of every plump goose. We were afraid lest it's spoil. Therefore
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it's roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's fire. Is only hope at
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all of finding this Henry Baker returning his head. It's a great deal of
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hope of finding him on im. Sorry to bursting about like this, mister
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Realms. But but the goose, the Christmas ghost, I trust the news
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of the goose justifies the melodrama of your entrance, Peterson. Marmaster ROMs.
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Mister Ralms. Answer, goose says it returned to life and flat tooth through
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your kitchen window. Lookrishalms, my wife found this in it's crop. Is
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that a diamond. Well, yes, doctor Watson, it must be.
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It cuts in the glasses though it were putting. When you open the goose,
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you found this precious stone inside of it. This is more than a
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precious stone, Watson. This is d precious stone. This is the counties
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of more cars blue carbuncle? Is it rarely? Precisely? I ought to
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know its size and shape, seeing that I've read the advertisement about it in
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the Times every day. This blue carbuncle is unique. The award of a
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thousand pounds for its return is certainly not a twentieth part of its market price.
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Reward of a thousand pass Yes, you mind if I sit down and
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I read in the newspaper that it was last of the hotel Cosmopolitan Home you
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did, Watson. On December the twenty second, John Horner, a plumber,
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was accused of having stolen it from the Countess's apartment. The evidence against
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him was very strong. James Ryder, the head attendant at the hotel,
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accused Horner. He said he'd shown Horner to the Countess's dressing room so that
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Horner might prepare a grape that was luke. Yes, yes, I remember
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that. Now Rider left Horner alone in the room. When Rider came back,
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Horner was gone. The bureau had been forced open. On the box
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where the duel was kept lay empty. I see there was a maiden barrow
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too, a Catherine Cusac. She rushed into the room when she heard Rider
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shouting about the robbery and found the situation exactly as he described it in court.
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Yes, Holmes, but if this Horner stole the jewel, how did
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it get into the bird? And what is Henry Baker do with all this?
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Mister Baker, Watson should provide a satisfatory explanation to bet mystery. We
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shall determine his innocence or guilt by a simple test the moment we produce him.
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How shall we do that? Though I had nothing to do with the
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robbery, you understand one. On the moment, Peterson, we shall pay
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an advertisement in the evening papers. Watson, that would be the simplest method.
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Would you give me a pencil and men flip of papers? Yes,
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of course, there you are fund at the corner of Goods Street, a
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goose and a black help hat. Mister Henry Baker can have the same by
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applying at six thirty this evening at two twenty one b Baker Street. Will
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he see it in the papers or undoubtedly? Watson, he's a poor man.
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The lost is a heavy one. Peterson, would you have this put
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in the evening papers? Very wells realms and a stone. I shall return
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the stone to the counties immediately. And oh, Peterson, would you buy
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a goose on your way back and leave it with me? We must have
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one to gi to this gentleman in place of the one which your family is
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that now the bowery was certainly mister rams Well good No, gentlemen, thousand
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fans reward, great Lord of Mercy. What a one for Christmas? Is
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ill be a thousand fans? Richard god risky, merry, gentlemen, there's
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nothing you dismay. Now just look up this precious stone, Watson. Oh,
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yes, incredibly beautiful, so pure, so brilliant. Quite but behind
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the beauty there's evil, Watson. This carbuncle was found in the banks of
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the Amoy River in southern China. Why do they call the stone a carbuncle?
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Host? Isn't a carbuncle ruby there? Indeed it is, But this
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is a blue carbuncle, and the rarity of it has given it a sinister
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history. There have been several robberies, an acid throwing, a suicide,
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and two murders just for the sake of this forty grain weight of crystallized charcoal.
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You see Watson in a great jewel that every pathet may stand for a
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bloody. If you were shopping for the finest silver, you would naturally look
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for the Sterling mark. Similarly, you want assurance of quality and value when
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you shop for clothes. When you buy a clipper Craft you get double assurance
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the name of the store plus the clipper Craft label. That's your proof that
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you're getting one of America's greatest values. You see, the clipper Craft label
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is the symbol of a remarkable plan that concentrates the immense purchasing power of more
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than twelve hundred fine independent stores from coast to coast. The savings on production
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and distribution goes straight into your pocket. That's why you're truly expensive looking.
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Clippercraft top coade or overcoat is only forty to forty seven fifty, and that's
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why millions of men cheer the incredibly modest prices of clipper Craft's new zipper lining
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top coats. That's why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes bearing the
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clipper Craft labels, So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your
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city. And remember that's one of the more than twelve hundred leading retail stores
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across the nation where courtesy and friendly service are always yours, the store that
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is proud to add its fine name to that of clipper Craft Clothes in the
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label of your suit, top coat and overcoat. And remember also, not
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every pattern is always available in your size, but keep trying. It will
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pay you to wait for clipper Craft clothes bearing the clipper Craft label for doctor
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Watson. Shall we return to the story of the criminal who stole the blue
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carbuncle, most certainly mister Harris. I returned to Hose's room later that evening
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to find homes with mister Henry Baker, the gentleman who ast his hat,
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and his Christmas goose, who had appeared in response to the advertisement about your
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bird. Mister Baker, we were compelled to eat it. You've eaten my
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bird. Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we
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not done so. I presume this other goose upon the sideboard will answer your
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purpose equally well, yes, I believe it will. We still have the
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feathers, the legs, and the crop and so on of your original bird,
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if you wish to have them, would they be on youth to you,
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mister Baker, No, none whatsoever you've seen? Hesitant, sir,
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doubtful. I just moved by your kind miss. Gentlemen. You might well
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have kept the bird and done nothing, But in the tradition of the Christmas
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spirit, you have provided me with a joyful surprise. Mister Baker, would
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you tell me where you've got the original bird? I'm somewhat of a fowl
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fancier, and I've seldom seen a better grown goose. Certainly, mister Holmes,
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there are a few of us who frequently alpha inn near the museum.
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Is this year our host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club,
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by which, on consideration of a few pennies every week, we will each
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to receive a bird if Christmas my pennies were paid. The rest is familiar
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to you. Now. If you'll pardon me my hat, oh yes,
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ditis, thank you, I must dash home to share this wonderful bird with
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my family. You have the humble gratitude, gentleman, of a poor soul
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whose Christmas you have brightened a small enough gift, sir, for the greatness
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of the death. Merry Christmas, mister Baker, and a glorious holiday to
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you, doctor Watson. Mister Holmes greeting, mister Bacon is quite innocent,
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day Holmes. Quite really, Holmes, you have not extended greetings to one
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person. You know that the Christmas spirit cannot reach the lofty, ice bound
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heights. Will you keep yourself at a moment Watson and mister Horner stands at
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the assizes, charged with robbery of the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle. Mister
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Horner may serve a long sentence in prison and deserved there, and the actual
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culprit will still be at large. Who placed the priceless stone in the crop
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of the bird? We must answer that damning question, Watson, We have
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no time for sentimental rubbish. Quickly to the outer inn. There's the landlord
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of this inn at the barbs red faced chair from the one apron name is
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Windicant. Mister Windgant wanted it be two glasses of brps, two glasses of
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beer. It is your beer should be excellence, if it's as good as
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your geese my geese. Yes, I was speaking only half an hour ago
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to mister Henry Baker, who was a member of your goose club. Oh
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but dam's not our gis indeed, then who's are there? Oh? I
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got two dozen of them from a salesman in Covent. God, I know
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some of those balesman. Which one was it? Let me see now his
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name was? His name was? Oh? Yes, yes, break Ridge,
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Breckon Ridge. Thank you, Sam come, yes right you are white
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year you haven't drunk her your payments. Mister Windicotts, we've more urgent matters
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at hand, not even time for a toaster, but jolliest holiday of him
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all months. Well, good night, everne's a screw ill advised humor is
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the eternal airmark of third rate minds. Good night, sure, by Jove,
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Holmes, even all Windaget's cut the spirit of the bear. I must
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say, Holmes, were you to regard this beautiful legend of Saint Nicholas and
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the one day we may all rock this earth with a care free and childish
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heart, who regard it as sentimental rubbish? It's an excusable host my mind
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watsonto but one inexcusable act of failure of a human mind. To solve a
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problem, especially a problem in crimes. And there's such a cab and race
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the common garden market. This salesman, this breckon Ridge, he holds the
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solution to the middle of a stolen jewel. Howry, Bill mledd help me
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put up these shutters right down with breckon Ridge. You hear those church bells,
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Bill Mleddill, Mister breckan Ridge. It's the sweetest music a man could
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ever hear church builds at Christmas times? Do you know what the bells are
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saying? What mister Breckinridge. They're saying you no business in the store working
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this night? You young Bill belongs with the other youngsters around the trees.
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And me, miss Sam breckan Ridge, I should be standing at the punch
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bowl with me good wife and me dear friends. Felt up for the shutters.
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Bill Milads read me the breckon Ridge. I am that, and I'm
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very happy. Evening it is, too, Sir Anlody. Evening. Yes,
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so it is by dord Park from sold Out of Peace. I see
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I can let you have five hundred tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning we'll not do.
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Surely you may find just one more. I would recommended to you byo.
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We were recommended by the landlord of the Alpha inn. Oh, yes,
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I see him. A couple of baders find birds? They were too
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Where did you get them? Then? Mister? What do you drive the
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net? Let's have a traight now, straight enough, we should like to
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know who sold you the geese? Would who was supplied to the alva in
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I sha't tell you. It's a matter of no importance. But I don't
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understand why you should be so disturbed over such a trypo trypol is it?
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You'd be angry, but as festive as I am. When I play good
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money for a good article left, you'll be the end of the business.
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But it's queer with the geese. And who did you tell the geese doing
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it? And what do you take for the geese? Never, in all
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my years at this sool of my earth touch your fat well. I have
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no connection with any other people who've been making inquiries, But I'm always ready
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to back my opinion on a matter of fowls meaning just what meaning you that
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I have a favorite on it? But the bird I ate is country bread?
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Why do you say that? Hope you've lost your favorite? It's tan
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beds. Nothing of a kindness, I say it is, and I don't
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believe it that you know more about thousand and I you've handled him ever since
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I was on the birds. I'll have a starbign on it. We here.
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Get the teacher not to be obstinate. Bring me the book, gain
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bill, I've set him shield. Here's a big luge. M fine,
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Now they're mister Copps. You were if you said over were to the lamp.
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Will let it me thumb and I'll find the page. Heaven spectacles step
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here we are, look at that third name. Just lead it out to
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me, missus oakshot one hundred and seventeen Brixton Road, egg and poaches the
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fire. Lead the last gentry December twenty second, twenty four, eight of
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seven shilling and six five self and what to say under the told to mister
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Windigett of the Alpha at twelve shillings? What are you gonna say? Now?
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You owe him a sovereign home and it is you won, mister you
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won, so I didn't do the letts and you may have the sovereign see
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it as Christmas time come up from the air about this call that comes sickening,
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this sweet I'm with your homes well evening, mister gregorns in A merry
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Christmas, A merry christ what's down this Peter Bigon? They want him in
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third private about nix Step who says Whiston Road home. There's missus Oakshot who
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raises the yes. Must know how the blue carbuncle came to be in the
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bird's crop and does it least now? But I Duke Breckenridge by means of
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that wager and telling me the woman's name. It's the salesman Reckons. Who's
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the little fellow he's arguing with? He wasn't at the stall before you off
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in the dog it my mister Frickin. We'll bringing the dough Dney and I'll
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answer earth what have you got to do with it? By the of you,
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Herbert? But one of them is mine? Always say well the nicet
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this mainstaper to visit the Brixton Road once and come will be made of it
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below. I've enough of it tasted the strange always in the store it comes
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you, Miss Copan Watson. One moment, stop where you are? Who
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are you? What do you want? You'll accuse me, sir, I
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could not help overhearing your conversation with mister Breckenridge. I believe I may be
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of assistant, but who are you? How could you know anything about?
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It's my business to know what other people don't
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know. And I'm doctor John Watson. You, sir, are endeavoring to
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trace some geese which were sold by and missis to mister Breckenridge at the stall
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down the street. The geese were told in turn to mister Windigett at the
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Alpha Inn and then to mister Henry Baker. Then you do know about it.
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You can help me, of course I can. Your name, song,
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my name is John Roberts. No, no, no, the real
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name. It's always awkward doing business with an alias, where my real name
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is James Ryder. Precisely so, you are head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan
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where the Countess's precious jewelry disappeared. Please, mister Holmes, I suggest we
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discussed this case of my residence on Backers Street. Ah. This is why
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I like it, the fars, very cozy, the rider. I've invited
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you here at the Baker's Street because you want to know what became about geese.
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I want to know desperately, Miss Row, you are concerned, mister
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Rider. I wear one bird quite with a black bar across the tail.
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You know about it? Can you tell me where it is? It came
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here here, yes, and it laid an egg after it was dead,
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the prettiest, brightest blue egg. I have it here in my phone box.
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Here. It is the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle. I'd like to
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explain. I'd rab him what he seems to think. I'll help him under
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this chair. Oh, we are not a very thurdy or convincing criminal.
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Are used the rider? You've heard, of course at this blue Stone.
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It was Catherine Cusack who told me about it. Yes, I see her,
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Ladyship's maid. You knew this man Horner had a criminal record, that
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it'd be easy to point suspicion toward him. You and the lady's maid managed
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to have Horner the plumber sent for after he left you will rifle the jewel
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case, raise the alarm, and had him arrested. Mister Holmes, I
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never went wrong before, I never will again. Don't bring this into court.
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And it's all very well to be contract now, mister write Home.
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But you've thought little enough of poor Horner and the duck for a crime of
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which you nothing hardly for the country, mister Holmes, the charge against him
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will break down. Is still the heaven head. An account of how the
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precious stone got into the goose's crop home. Yes, well, mister ride
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Art, you beg forgiveness, but you do not exclaim very much. Yes,
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yes, I'll tell you. After I'd taken the stone up, I
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knew there was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. So
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father friend Maudley by name, he served time in Pentonville. He knows the
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ways of thieves, and I counted upon Maudley to help me turn the stone
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into money. I ran to my sister's house, Missus Oakshot on Brixton Road.
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Yes, I presumed that while you're there that the Kurd you to hide
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the priceless gem and the crop of one of her geese, which were probably
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waddling in her backyard when you arrived. Just so, mister Holmes. She
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promised to give me one of the birds for the holidays, and I select
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did white with a barred tail. I forced that you were down its throat.
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Then my sister came out of the house. She told me to select
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a goose. Well, there was great numbers of them in the yard,
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and I pointed at what I thought was the paper bird, white with a
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barred tail. I carried the goose to Maudsley, and when you opened its
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crop, you'll suddenly realize there was more than one goose that was white with
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a barred tail. I was frantic as to Holmes. I discovered the goose
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had been sold a break and rigid cotton garden. I ran to with store.
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That's where you're fund me. No, I I'm a friended thief,
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miserable creature home. I yielded to a moment's temptation. Don't turn me into
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Scotland yard. I'll do whatever you ask. I'll make a man show in
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her house. If rad her hair doesn't appear and caught, the case against
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Harner will collapse. That's fair enough, isn't it, Holse. She didn't
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right into jail now, and you may make him a jailbird for life.
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You may be commuting the fellow. Would you say, this man soul,
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must you turn him over to the yard, Will Holmes? What do you
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say, mister Holmes? What do you say? Get house? Mister Rider?
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What no more words? Get out. Oh God bless you, sir,
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God bless you will astonished me Holmes, Well, it is the season
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of forgivenesses and this, yes, of course it is. But you know,
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I thought you'd quite forgotten them, Holmes, I thought you'd know use
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at all. But Christmas, I thought Landlord Wyndigett was quite right in calling
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you Ebone's a screwed, even though it screws had a change of heart.
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Didn't need this doing this? Well, shall we drink to it? Shall
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we drink to John Rider, Landlard Wendiget, bacon Ridge, the Shopkeeper,
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and little Bill to them it was all in my heart to you, Holmes.
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Merry Christmas, I join you in the coast by Deio Watson. A
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very many Christmas. Indeed, well, doctor Watson. The Adventure of the
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Blue Car Worker was a very charming and appropriate story. I imagine that next
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week, though we returned to the bloody, the grotesque, the great struggle
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between Holmes and the most brilliant criminals of the time. We do, mister
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Harris. Next week's adventure is entitled The Adventure of the Malicious Moor, which
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strangely resembles the story of Shakespeare's a feller. Well, that's a very attractive
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prospect, Doctor Watson, and Doctor as most of the friends of Sherlock Holmes
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know, an internationally famous society has been founded called the Baker Street Regulars,
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a society of devities to Holmes and to his adventures. And here in New
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York there is a chapter known as the Diogenes Club, after the great Greek
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philosopher who searched the earth for an honest man carrying a legendary lantern. Now
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each year the Diogenes Club, whose members include many of the most distinguished personalities
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on the current American scene, makes special awards for outstanding of chiefments. On
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Wednesday, December eighth of this year, the very first recipient of this award
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at Diogenes Lantern was President Harry S. Truman. The lantern was presented to
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our President by mister Elmer Davis and by mister Christopher Morley. In presenting an
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Elmer Davis said that President Truman received it for shedding light on the political situation
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when the experts were in the dark. Now, in the absence of doctor
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Charles Goodman, President of the Diogenese Club, I have been delegated to announce
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the latest award of the Diogenes Lantern. Following the award to President Truman,
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the makers of Clippercraft Clubs and all of us associated with the production of the
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for Radio are proud to announce the award of a Diogenes
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Lantern for his brilliant portrayal of poems on the air, to the eminent actor
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who plays the role on this program, the first citizen to receive the award
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after President Truman, mister John Stanley, Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Stanley,
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thank you, mister Harris for representing doctor Goodman and his associates. It goes
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without saying that I am deeply honored to receive this second Diogenes Lantern and humble
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that I should be so single out I may say that I'm doubly humble in
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my approach to the portrayal of the great Detective Sherlock Holmes. Again, thank
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you very much and happy New Year. The makers of clipper Craft Pods and
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new series of broadcasts featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Our
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stories are based upon the character Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
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and the program is produced and directed by Bassil Luckman. Sherlock Holmes is
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played by John Stanley, Doctor Watson by George Spelman. This week's story was
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written by Howard Merrill, with special music by Albert Furman. If you don't
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of these mutual stations on Monday nights. Check your local newspaper and mutual stations
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for the time now. I'll be sure to listen January third. That's January
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third to Sherlock owns in the Adventure of the Malicious More does this Si Harris
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speaking for clipper Craft poles and wishing all of you are happy New Year?
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Isn't the mutual broadcasting system welcome back? Well? I have to say this
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is a little marked departure from the book. I think that they went for
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a poor trayal in the overall story of Holmes, this is a somewhat hard
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nosed character. Well, Watson is the much more gentle and compassionate person.
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That was generally the case in the stories, but I think throughout them the
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original stories, Holmes would often show compassion or his own sort of sense of
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justice aside from the law. In the actual story of the Adventure of the
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Blue Carbuncle, it was Holmes who let the guy go without any word from
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Washing from Watson, saying, I'm not retained by the police to supply their
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deficiencies. If Horner were in danger, it would be another thing. But
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this fellow will not appear against him in the case will collapse. I suppose
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that I'm compounding a felony, but it's just as possible that I am saving
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a soul. This speller will not go wrong again. He's too terribly fright
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him. Send him to jail now you make him a jailbird for life.
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Besides, it's the season of forgiveness, so they kind of work to get
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some some of those lines into Watson's mouth. But that was the portrayal and
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does certainly had its popularity and a very interesting note of the becoming John Stanley
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becoming the second winner of an award from the Diogenous Diologenous Society. And I
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think the key thing, you know, every portrayal of Holmes will have its
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criticism. The great strength of Sherlock Holmes and any sort of adaptation is that
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people will watch or listen to it just because it's Sherlock Holmes, regardless of
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any problems. So all right, well now we turn to listener comments and
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feedback, and we begin with a common from Steve who offer who offered this
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opinion regarding episode eight O nine, The Unfortunate Valot. The Valot should have
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gotten a second opinion, undeniably true because ended up committing a murder because it
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got tricked by the doctor. Nora emails in I listened to the Sherlock Holmes
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podcast the Mad Miners of car def enjoyed the show as always. You mentioned
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the John Wannamakers Men's store, which you weren't sure had a spell. It
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seems to have been part of the Wannamaker's chain, and that's w A n
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A m a k E r apostrophe s chain which was on the East coast,
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and she provides some length anyway, I really enjoy your great detectives and
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drag that podcast. I'm learning about shows I never knew about before, and
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even if I heard them before, your comments shed new light on what I've
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heard. Thanks so much for doing this, and hope you and your family
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have a merry Christmas. From Nora, and she's in Seattle. So I
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got the information on the East Coast chain from a listener in Seattle, and
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thanks so much. And I learned from my listeners as that email illustrates.
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And I hope you and yours have a merry Christmas as well. To Nora,
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and oh to all of our reader our listeners here. And we have
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a one more note here on that situation, a menda Amanda Rights in that
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the original store in Philadelphia is now in May season maybe part of the National
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Historic Registry. And thanks so much for everyone's comments and sharing. I really
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appreciate it that I'm glad to bring you this story. And next week is
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going to be great. We're going to start something very rare in old time
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radio Detectors shows. Outside of the fifteen minute serials of Johnny Dollar, we
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don't have a lot of multiple part episodes, which allows some complexity. But
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next week we start a three part Sherlock Holmes story which will include perhaps either
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the best or the worst Clippercraft ad depending on your perspective. You'll want to
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be listening to Sherlock Holmes over the next three weeks. We have ten weeks
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in this specific serial, but we have a little bit more of Sherlock Holmes
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after that. So you want to stay listening Sherlock Holmes on Thursdays and join
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us tomorrow for yours truly Johnny Doller. In the meanwhile, your comments box
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