A Bard by Any Other Name

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Title:  A Bard by Any Other Name
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Lestrade
Summary: A vignette
Warnings: (Och! Dialogue!)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 22nd prompt: (The Bard)

‘Good morning, Mr Holmes. I just popped by to see how your doctor is faring.’

‘He’s out of pain. The opiates have seen to that, but in his delirium he has been regaling the household with passages from The Bard.’

‘No wonder you look like hell. That’s the trouble with the educated: full of “Once more unto the breach” and “What a piece of work is a man!” Now, take your working class: he’d be “Ow, me ‘ead! Ow, me ‘ead!” or such like.’

‘Alas, Lestrade, you forget that Watson is a Scot, and as such, his Bard is Burns.’

.oOOo.

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Comments

[wirral-bagpuss.livejournal.com]

Double PS, thinking about it Sir ACD believed in spiritualism so it would not be surprising if he were looking over your shoulder when you wrote this ;)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I hear him turning in his grave!