Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, the creator of the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, was
not above telling tales about himself in which he was the laughing stock. Here
is one of those stories.
As he tells it,
he was waiting at a taxi stand outside the railway station in Paris.
When a taxi
pulled up, he put his suitcase in it and got in himself. As he was about to
tell the taxi driver where he wanted to go, the driver asked him:
"Where can
I take you, Mr. Doyle?" Doyle was flabbergasted. He asked the driver whether
he knew him by sight.
The driver
said: "No Sir, I have never seen you before." The puzzled Doyle asked
him what made him think that he was Conan Doyle.
The driver
replied: "This morning's paper had a story about you being on vacation in
Marseilles. This is the taxi stand where people who return from Marseilles
always come to. Your skin colour tells me you have been on vacation. The ink
spot on your right index finger suggests to me that you are a writer. Your
clothing is very English, and not French. Adding up all those pieces of
information, I deduce that you are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." Doyle said:
"This is
truly amazing. You are a real life counter part to my fictional creation,
Sherlock Holmes."
"There is
one other thing," the driver said.
"What is
that?"
"Your name
is on the front of your suitcase."
Vocabulary
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- tales -
histórias
- laughing
stock - objeto de gozação, riso
- railway
station - estação ferroviária
- flabbergasted
- surpreso
- puzzled -
surpreso, espantado
- skin - pele
- ink spot -
marca de tinta
- clothing -
vestuário
- amazing -
surpreendente
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