Sherlock Holmes - Study in Scarlet Part1

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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories 32 min 3 speakers 6 chapters transcribed 1 month ago
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Sherlock Holmes 1:23
Stanford! Stanford! I found it! I found a reagent which is precipitated by hemoglobin and by nothing else. Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. How are you? How do you do? You've been in Afghanistan, I perceive. How on earth do you know that, Mr. Holmes? Never mind. It was many years ago... But I shall never forget that fateful meeting in the laboratory at Bath Hospital. I was home from India, invalided out of the army, and looking for lodgings in keeping with my pension. Holmes had just found a suite of rooms at number 221B Baker Street and wanted someone to share them. I'd been warned he might prove a strange companion. And so he did. I became more and more curious about it. And, of course, he quickly noticed it.
Sherlock Holmes 2:33
I trust, Doctor, that these few weeks have not proved to you that I'm too difficult a fellow lodger after all. Far from it, Holmes. I don't mind admitting you puzzle me, though. Puzzle you? Well, the way you work like a fiend sometimes, and as others you lie on the sofa there hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. And there's those curious visitors of yours. In one afternoon, a gray-headed, seedy fellow looking like a peddler. Then an old, white-haired gentleman, a fashionably dressed young girl. And a railway porter. And that little, sallow, rat-faced fellow, Lestrade, who's been here three times in a single week. But I always apologize for putting you to any inconvenience in the matter, Watson.
Sherlock Holmes 3:13
I have to use this room as a place of business. And these people are my clients. Yes, but what is it? Oh, never mind. You don't inconvenience me at all, Holmes. I'm only too pleased. Thank you. But tell me, have your observations of me over these weeks reached any sum total yet? You might think of a bit of a cheek, but I've been jotting down all the various points from which you've shown me that you're exceptionally well informed. Oh, indeed? I should very much like to hear them. You would? Oh, I've got the paper here somewhere, and... Ah, here it is. You won't mind, will you? Not at all. Oh, well, it runs this way. Sherlock Holmes, his limits. One, knowledge of literature, nil. Two, knowledge of philosophy, nil.
Sherlock Holmes 4:03
Three, knowledge of astronomy. No. Knowledge of politics. Feeble. Oh, you go on. Knowledge of botany. Variable. Well up in Belladonna. Opium and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. Dear me. Knowledge of geology. Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me stashes upon his trousers and told me about their colour and consistency and what part of London he'd received them. Seven, knowledge of chemistry. Profound. Eight, knowledge of anatomy. Accurate, but unsystematic. Nine, knowledge of sensational literature. Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century. Ten, plays the violin well. Thank you. Eleven is an expert single-stick player, boxer and swordsman.
Sherlock Holmes 4:55
Twelve is a good practical knowledge of British law. Capital. Well, I suppose I'd better provide you with the answer to it all. You see, the theories of observation and deduction, which I have frequently expressed to you, are really extremely practical. So practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese. But how? Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I'm the only one in the world. I'm a consulting detective. consulting detective. Here in London, we have lots of government detectives and lots of private ones. When these fellows are at fault, they come to me and I manage to put them on the right scent.

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