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Holmes,

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A Sherlock holmeS Adventure: Silver blAze


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The Adventure of Silver Blaze (1)

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To Dartmoorto King's Pyland. (1)D, D E, . S , - - , . (S The Hound of the Baskervilles .)

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just time to catch our train at Paddington. (1)

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your very excellent field-glass. (1)

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en route for Exeter. (1)

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while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager faceframed in his earf lapped travelling cap. (1)

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We had left Reading far behind us. (1)

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Our rate at present is f ifty-three and a half milesan hour.

I have not observed the quarter-mile posts, said I.

Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line aresixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one. (1)

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W.I have seen what the Tgap and the cnihave to say. (1)

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is from the Isonomy stock. (2)

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q .He is now in his f ifth year, and has brought in turneach of the prizes of the turf to Colonel Ross, his for-tunate owner. (2)

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a retired jockey, who rode in Colonel Ross's co-lours before he became too heavy for the weighingchair. (2)

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a Tavistock contractor. (3)

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inhabited only by a few roaming gipsies. (3)

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he wore gaiters. (3)

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out of his waistcoat pocket. (3)

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Is it a fact that at the weights Bayard could give theother a hundred yards in five furlongs? (4)

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So you're one of those damned touts, cried the lad.(4)

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who slept in the chaff-cutting loft above the har-ness-room. (4)

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flapping from a furze bush. (4-5)

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a red and black silk cravat. (5)

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by doing a little quiet and genteel bookmaking inthe sporting clubs of London. (5)

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and his stick, which was a Penang lawyer, weightedwith lead, was just such a weapon as might, by re-

peated blows, have inf licted the terrible injuries towhich the trainer had succumbed. (5)

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.the little town of Tavistock, which lies, like the bossof a shield, in the middle of the huge circle of Dart-moor. (6)

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West Street in Tavistock before 1920, photographed byTaylor (ref. # DA-002197)

Original Images Devon County Council, Web Im-age Dartmoor Archive, http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/dartmoor.trust.archive/. Used by permission.

Bedford Square in Tavistock in 1895, photographed byTaylor (ref. # DA-002216). At center left, between thetrees, the arches of the railway station are barely visible.


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with trim little side-whiskers and an eye-glass. (6)

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A minute later we were all seated in a comfortablelandau. (6)

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He says that it was a ten-pound note. (7)

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There was a box of vestas, two inches of tal low candle,an A.D.P. briar-root pipe, a pouch of sealskin withhalf an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watchwith a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an alumin-ium pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handledknife with a very delicate inflexible blade markedWeiss and Co., London. (7-8)

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a milliner's account for thirty-seven pounds

fif teen, made out by Madame Lesurier, of BondStreet. (8)

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Twenty-two guineas is rather heavy for a single cos-

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Surely I met you in Plymouth, at a garden party.(8)

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He took the boots from the bag and compared theimpressions of each of them with marks upon the

ground. (9)

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We imagined what might have happened, acted uponthe supposition, and find ourselves justified . (10)


A 19th-century landau from Hilaire Bellocs T H- I V (London: Studio Limited, 1926)plate XL. See also the illustration on page 12 of the story.


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It ended at the paving of asphalt which led up to thegates of the Mapleton stables. (10)

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Oh, you can trust me, you can trust me!Yes, I think I can. (11)

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the Colonel's manner has been just a trif le cava-lier to me. (11)

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I was about to make some reply in defence [sic] of myfriend (12)

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To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.

The dog did nothing in the night-time.That was the curious incident, remarked Sher-

lock Holmes. (13)

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Holmes and I were again in the train bound forWinchester, to see the race for the Wessex Cup. (13)

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we drove in his drag. (13)

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Teignhead Farm: a lonely Dartmoor farmstead, about10 miles northeast of Tavistock, built in the 18th centuryand photographed in 1889 by Robert Burnard (ref. #DA-003223).

Taylor photographed the barnyard of the Old BartonFarm, Horrabridge, in 1914 (ref. # DA-000370).

Hall farm, in Sampford Spiney, within 5 miles of Tavis-tock, was built in 1607 and photographed by Taylor in1917 (ref. # DA-000432).

Original Images Devon County Council, Web Image Dartmoor Archive. The Dartmoor Archive, http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/dartmoor.trust.archive/. Used bypermission.


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his mottled off fore leg. (13)

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You could have got fifteen to one yesterday, but theprice has become shorter and shorter, until you canhardly get three to one now. (13)

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Wessex Plate. 50 sovs. each, h ft, with 1,000 sovs.added, for four and five-year olds. Second 300. Third

200. New course (one mile and five furlongs). (13)

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Colonel Ross's Silver Blaze (black cap, red jacket). (13)

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We scratched our other one. (13)

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Five to four against Silver Blaze! (13)

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wash his face and his leg in spirits of wine. (13)

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Sometimes it is a pulling jockey. (15)

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it is possible to make a slight nick upon the ten-dons of a horse's ham. (15)

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we shall be in Victoria in less than ten minutes.(16)

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A private coach, or drag from Hugh McCausland, TE C (London: Batchworth Press, 1948)plate XXV, facing page 112

A 19th-century thoroughbred race from from William R. Woodard, C P T H(Privately printed, Ernest R. Gee, 1929), facing page 117


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