Here It Is That This Creature Takes His Dailyseat - Cross-legged With His Tiny Stock Of ______eson His Lap - And As He Is A Piteous Spectacle A Smallrain Of Charity Descends Into The Greasy Leather Capwhich Lies Upon The Pavement Beside Him; With These Heconstructed A Sort Of Eastern Divan - Upon Whichhe Perched Himself Cross-legged - With An Ounceof Shag Tobacco And A Box Of ______es Laid Out Infront Of Him; Then With A Red Head Of Hair - And An Appropriate Dress - I Took My Station In Thebusiness Part Of The City - Ostensibly As A ______-sellerbut Really As A Beggar; My Stepfather Has Offered Noopposition To The ______ - And We Are To Be Marriedin The Course Of The Spring; In Her Righthand Was Found The Charred Stump Of A ______ - Andin Her Left A ______-box; By It Helaid The Box Of ______es And The Stump Of A Candle; The Instant Thatwe Heard It - Holmes Sprang From The Bed - Strucka ______ - And Lashed Furiously With His Cane At Thebell-pull; The Presence Of The Gipsies - And The Use Ofthe Word 'band - ' Which Was Used By The Poor Girl - No Doubt - To Explain The Appearance Which Shehad Caught A Hurried Glimpse Of By The Light Ofher ______ - Were Sufficient To Put Me Upon An Entirely Wrong Scent;"It Was Pitch Dark Inside The House - And Thecolonel Fumbled About Looking For ______es Andmuttering Under His Breath; Any Injury To It Would Be Almost As Seriousas Its Complete Loss - For There Are No Beryls In Theworld To ______ These - And It Would Be Impossibleto Replace Them

A collection of twelve short stories, published in 1892, by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. I The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.