A Study in Scarlet — page 28: what you’re looking at

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20 A STUDY IN SCARLET. I was on the point of asking him what that work might be, but something in his manner showed me that the question would be an unwelcome one. I pondered over our short conversation, however, and endeavored to draw my deductions from it. He said that he would aequire no Lnowledge which did not bear upon his ob- ject. Therefore, all the knowledge which he possessed was such 23 would be useful to him. I enumerated in my own mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well informed. Il even took a pencil and jotted them down. I could not help smiling at the document when I had completed it. Jt ran in this way: SHERLOCK Ho.tmMes—his limits. 1. Knowledge of Literature. —Nil. af ‘* Philosophy.—Nil. - “ Astronomy.—Nil. = ** Politics.—Feeble. x “ Botany.—Variable. Well up m belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. 6, : “ Geology.—Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their color and consistence in what part of London he had received them. Pe» (E(0) an G JOO gS} (E(0)