Idlefellow
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"It was on this day in 1887 that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were first revealed to readers in the pages of Beeton's Christmas Annual in the novella A Study in Scarlet. A mildly successful physician named Arthur Conan Doyle had written a story about a detective who was also a violin collector, philosopher, and amateur chemist. Conan Doyle had learned the basics of writing a short story from studying the works of Guy de Maupassant and learned the art of writing logically and with precision from his study of medical journals."
A pipeful of shag tobacco in an oily, blackened clay whilst listening to a nice violin concerto might be appropriate today.
A pipeful of shag tobacco in an oily, blackened clay whilst listening to a nice violin concerto might be appropriate today.