IN LIGHTER VEIN.
Angler (new recruit to tho gentle art, who is "flogging" tho stream) — "Not splash so much? Why, bless you, if I don't attract their attention how are the fish to know tho beastly thing's there at all?" —"Punch." P.C. AIAI gazeel long and thoughtfully at the hole in Mrs Parkington's parlour window. Then he produced a pocket-bock. "You 'card tho crash at four o'clock B " "Four o'clock," echoed tho lady. "You run to the door, but seed nobody?" •'Nobody." After this question Sherlock could think of no more, so ho _hut up hi._ hook with a snap anel walked off, dreaming of promotion. A few minutes later he was back, with a full-face smile that was eloquent of triumph. "Jobs like this 'ere don't take a smart chap long," he remarked. "You're sure it happened at four o'clock ma'am?" "Yes. Have you caught tho culprits?" "Well, not yet, ma'am," he answered, "but I'm a-narrowin' of it clown all right. It wasn't Bill Tggins, cos' "c was killed by a motor-car at 'ar-pas' three!"
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13876, 29 October 1910, Page 7
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176IN LIGHTER VEIN. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13876, 29 October 1910, Page 7
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