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Tonight, I will be reading

a Sherlock Holmes story

by Arthur Conan Doyle,

The Adventure of the Glorious Scott.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

I have some papers here, said my friend Sherlock Holmes, as we sat one winter's night on either

side of the fire, which I really think, Watson, that it

would be worth your while to glance over. These are the documents in the extraordinary case of

the glorious Scott, and this is the message which struck Justice of the Peace Trevor dead

with horror when he read it. He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and on doing the tape he handed me a

short note scrawled upon a half sheet of slate grey paper.

The supply of game for London is going steadily up, it ran.

Headkeeper Hudson, we believe, has now told to receive all orders for flypaper

and for preservation of your hen-fesson's life. As I glanced up from reading this enigmatical message,

I saw Holmes chuckling at the expression upon my face. You look a little bewildered, said he.

I cannot see how such a message as this could inspire horror.

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