'I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.' Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.' 'I think,' said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, 'that Dr. 'And then again, there is the 'friends of the C.C.H.' I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.' The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.' 'Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it. 'Really, Watson, you excel yourself,' said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette.

'I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.' Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods. I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval. He now took the stick from my hands and examined it for a few minutes with his naked eyes. Then with an expression of interest he laid down his cigarette, and carrying the cane to the window, he looked over it again with a convex lens.

'Interesting, though elementary,' said he as he returned to his favourite corner of the settee. It gives us the basis for several deductions.' 'There are certainly one or two indications upon the stick. 'I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked?' 'Has anything escaped me?' I asked with some self-importance. 'I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous.

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