A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 186: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“TAUGH OFT, AND DEFY THE DOCTOR.” Toothsome Tales Told in Slang ..443 By BILLY BURGUNDY. A book of fascinating stories about fasci- Tariana: SOME 5 Ss oak nk) Pretty women before and behind the foot- lights, artists and their models, literary men of Bohemian tendencies, these are the people whom Billy Burgundy has se- lected for characterization. True, they speak their lines in slang, but it is the slang of the educated, and is always artistic while delight- fully amusing . Dees ee eae Pronounced by press and public one of the funniest books ever published ..... The illustrations are by Outcault, Swin- nerton, Marriner, Rigby, Pal, McAuley, Temon, Cobband Bryans. ...... Copiously Illustrated. Price, 75 cents. STREET AND SMITH, New York and London ' dé “> e, as aoe e _ 4 e ‘. ia 7 i= Gomicboo