The Six Napoleons: Super

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Title: The Six Napoleons: Super
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Crack-a-doodle-doo. Italian stereotyping.
Summary: This is a work of fiction and does not intend to infringe on copyrights held either by Nintendo or the Doyle estate.

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“…But the vendettas amongst bricklayers are as nothing compared to the plumbers.”

Two voices shouting in Italian made us all look outside the workshop. Two mustachioed men, one in green and one in red, chased each other through pipes and over brick walls, eating something.

The German foreman shook his head. “Mein Gott. Those mushrooms were for my schnitzel tonight.”


* Translation: The foreman says “My God.”

The Six Napoleons: If These Walls Could Talk...

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Canon Story: The Six Napoleons
Rating: G
Author's Note: ...No. 131 was one of a row, all flat-chested, respectable, and most unromantic dwellings.

Look, No. 129, there’s the scoundrel, and he’s coming this way!
Oh, No. 131, he makes my foundations quake with rage! Why I’d like to show him a thing!
Flat-chested!
Unromantic!
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“Watson, whatever is the matter?”
“Holmes, I was back in Kensington today, near Harker’s, and I could swear that the buildings themselves were, well, out to get me!”
“Brandy?”

Discussion Post: The Six Napoleons

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Six Napoleons and the chosen topic is Newspapers and Periodicals.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Six Napoleons

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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, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it 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.

N.B. Rachel has chosen to do something a little different this week. As the poem is a long one and not all of its lines relevant to Mr. Holmes and this story, she has edited the poem to produce an abridged version.

You will find Rachel’s version posted below, and underneath that there is a link to the full poem, if you wish to read that too.



Note from Rachel: This poem reminded me of the good Inspector Lestrade, who seems to look upon Mr. Holmes rather as Shakespeare's literary rivals might have looked upon the Bard: with respect for his genius, affection for his idiosyncratic character, and professional jealousy now conquered and put aside. Yet the speaker also expresses a certain inescapable bafflement about this strange man and concern for his well-being.


( Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford (abridged version) )

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford By Edwin Arlington Robinson (full version)



Thank you so much to Rachel. We are always so grateful for your hard work for our little community. And here is my suggested poetry form to revisit this week: Parallelismus Membrorum. (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, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, line messaging, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, 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 Six Napoleons in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Six Napoleons: The Six Detectives

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Canon Story: The Six Napoleons
Title: The Six Detectives
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G

Lestrade was comparing notes with a visiting inspector.

Holmes watched thoughtfully. “That’s what we need! Someone to tell us informally what’s going on at Scotland Yard.” He furrowed his brow. “Gregson? Jones? Patterson? Youghal? Morton?”

“You’re missing the obvious.” Watson gestured discreetly. “Someone willing to listen and learn, as well as talk..?”

“Ah.” Holmes smiled. “Lestrade. A pearl amongst men.”

The Six Napoleons: The Visitor

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Canon Story: The Six Napoleons
Title: The Visitor (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

It is extremely delightful Lestrade has taken to calling in so regularly of an evening.  Holmes does not seem at all concerned by the inspector’s presence, and indeed from time to time they discuss cases.  On other occasions Holmes tells me it is my responsibility to entertain Lestrade, and I have not yet found the slightest difficulty in so doing.