The Hound of the Baskervilles

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Mr. Sherlock Holmes who was usually very late in the mornings save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine thick piece of wood bulbous-headed of the sort which is known as a Penang lawyer. Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. To James Mortimer M.R.C.S. from his friends of the C.C.H. was engraved upon it with the date 1884. It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry-dignified solid and reassuring. Well Watson what do you make of it? Holmes was sitting with his back to me and I had given him no sign of my occupation.