Sketch-Charades
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capt_facepalmTitle: Sketch-Charades
Author:capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Roy the wolfhound, Dr John Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes, Stanley Hopkins
Summary: Dogs listen to every story their beloved master tells them
Warning: (Wolfhounds are actually quite lazy... more of an observation than a warning)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 22nd 2023 prompt: Parlour Games
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capt_facepalm Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Roy the wolfhound, Dr John Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes, Stanley Hopkins
Summary: Dogs listen to every story their beloved master tells them
Warning: (Wolfhounds are actually quite lazy... more of an observation than a warning)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 22nd 2023 prompt: Parlour Games
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Roy rose, stretched his long shambly wolfhound body, then lay back down to observe his master and his friends as they engaged in a game of sketch-charades.
Dr Watson drew several squiggles on the slate chalkboard.
Swamp adder, snorted Roy. It was always swamp adders.
Mr Holmes eventually recognised it, so it was now his turn. He drew a circle.
Roy tilted his head. Ah, the Black Pearl of the Borgias. How typical.
This one went unsolved so Stanley Hopkins went next and sketched a very realistic oil lamp.
Roy woofled at his master. Surely you recognise the Devil’s Foot!?!
Roy rose, stretched his long shambly wolfhound body, then lay back down to observe his master and his friends as they engaged in a game of sketch-charades.
Dr Watson drew several squiggles on the slate chalkboard.
Swamp adder, snorted Roy. It was always swamp adders.
Mr Holmes eventually recognised it, so it was now his turn. He drew a circle.
Roy tilted his head. Ah, the Black Pearl of the Borgias. How typical.
This one went unsolved so Stanley Hopkins went next and sketched a very realistic oil lamp.
Roy woofled at his master. Surely you recognise the Devil’s Foot!?!
.oOOo.
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Supplementary Notes:
Animal: The swamp adder and, of course, our POV narrator: Roy the wolfhound.
Vegetable: The Devil's Foot root
Mineral: No, it's not the pearl, its the chalkboard! (Pearls are organically-formed.)
In my head-canon, after The Adventure of the Creeping Man, Professor Presbury's wolfhound, Roy, is adopted by Dr Watson who remains in London after Holmes retires to Sussex.
Animal: The swamp adder and, of course, our POV narrator: Roy the wolfhound.
Vegetable: The Devil's Foot root
Mineral: No, it's not the pearl, its the chalkboard! (Pearls are organically-formed.)
In my head-canon, after The Adventure of the Creeping Man, Professor Presbury's wolfhound, Roy, is adopted by Dr Watson who remains in London after Holmes retires to Sussex.
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Date: 2023-07-23 02:58 am (UTC)Also - tricksy, tricksy with the chalkboard! But the pearl could count too because it's made of calcium carbonate
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Date: 2023-07-23 03:05 am (UTC)"Pearls are deposits of calcium carbonate (aragonite, calcite, or both) called nacre. Pearl (nacre) is not a mineral because it does not have a distinctive crystal structure and because it is formed by the action of a living organism."
But I am not a geologist; I am a hack fanfic writer and as surely as swamp adders crave the occasional saucer of milk, pearls can be minerals if it suits the plot!
Thanks!
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Date: 2023-07-23 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-23 07:48 am (UTC)And yes, he really should live with Watson :-)
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Date: 2023-07-27 02:36 am (UTC)