Conan Doyle, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: "Silver Blaze"

Study this famous story very carefully. Pay close attention to all the details.

Make sure you look up the following words, which you almost certainly do not know: Frock coat; gaiters; Landau; Drag [a vehicle]; Vesta - see "Swan Vesta"; sovereign (a ooin); furze-bush; milliner.

Look up these too: tout; guinea (money); Penang-lawyer; chaff-cutting; fakir; Pullman. We will discuss them briefly either today or during our next class:

To be any good at all in analyzing texts, you must always look up words you do not know. One or more of them might well be of critical importance in understanding the text! Ignorance never leads to anything but failure.

What's more, with the Internet at our fingertips we have no excuses!

These sites will be useful to you. Wikipedia; the Osford English Dictionary (the online edition, of course); Google.

Write 150-200  words discussing this theme:

• Holmes' process of deduction;

And 150-200 words discussing one of the following themes, depending on your group:

1. attitudes towards science in this story (odd-numbered groups).
2. Holmes' attitude towards the British nobility / upper classes and the depiction of British society (even-numbered groups).

Email to me and to your group.