The Naval Treaty: A Very Weary Vigil

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Title: The Naval Treaty: A Very Weary Vigil
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: Waiting is always the hardest part.
                                                                                       
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I have deduced where my prey will show; now I need only wait out the long night for the game to come to the watering-hole. Utter stillness, ennui and tension minute by minute, for hours.

But most of all I long for Watson's company. This, though hazardous, would have been a kinder vigil than the one that produced a serpent.

The Naval Treaty: Rare Characters

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Canon Story: The Naval Treaty
Rating: Gen
Summary: Handwriting tells.
Author's Note: Inspired by godsdaisiechain's entry.

“I concede the point about the handwriting being a woman’s, Holmes, but how did you know that she was of rare character?"
“When we return to London, I shall do a demonstration and point out the telling characteristics of the Phelps letter and a similar missive.”
“What missive?”
“The one Mrs. Watson included enclosed with the invitation to your wedding.”

Discussion Post: The Naval Treaty

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Naval Treaty and the chosen topic is The Navy.


( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Naval Treaty

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, are this week’s suggested poems to read—suggestions inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poems, and perhaps they may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.



God's Grandeur

by Gerard Manley Hopkins


I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing

by Walt Whitman


Note from Rachel: These two poems were inspired by Mr. Holmes’s contemplation of the rose and his sense that some benevolent purpose was implied by its existence. The first poem echoes the religious themes raised by this passage, while the second poem uses the contemplation of nature to reaffirm a more human love.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: terza rima. (The link takes you back to a previous poetry page.)


But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Naval Treaty in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Naval Treaty: Early Developer

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Canon Story: The Naval Treaty
Title: Early Developer
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I have no doubt that you can remember “Tadpole” Phelps, who was in the fifth form when you were in the third. “How are you, Watson?” said he, cordially. “I should never have known you under that moustache… (And apologies to the brave Miss Mouselet.)


“So what was your nickname at that age?”

“Er…” Watson looked up from his notes. “Whiskers.”

Holmes frowned. “Whiskers? Can’t see you as being timid as a mouse.”

“No, it was because…” Watson twiddled his modest facial hair. “Well, as Phelps said, I didn’t have this moustache then...”

“No?” Holmes raised an eyebrow.

“No.”

Watson sighed.

“I had a handlebar.”

The Naval Treaty: Percy Phelps

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Canon Story: The Naval Treaty
Title: Percy Phelps (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Percy Phelps was a prig when he was a small boy.  I remember how he would parade the names of his illustrious relations before us, and how he wished us all to know how much cleverer than us he was.  As an adult he remains querulous, not solely due to his illness.  With any luck our paths won’t cross again.