The Norwood Builder: Tricky

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
Title: Tricky
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G



Astonishingly, Holmes agreed to entertain the children with conjuring at the Scotland Yard Christmas party.

Chemical explosions drew delighted squeals. Mindreading was applauded wildly. But pulling a rabbit out of a hat terrified the little ones.

“I cannot understand it,” said Holmes afterwards.

“Well,” I said, “I am fairly certain the rabbit wasn’t supposed to be bought from a butcher’s.”



Author's Notes: Just showing my working out: Holmes stood before us with the air of a conjurer who is performing a trick.

…a little, wizened man darted out of it, like a rabbit out of its burrow.

“A dead dog, or rabbits, or what? Well, well, I dare say that a couple of rabbits would account both for the blood and for the charred ashes.”

Comments

[debriswoman]

Points for trying, Holmes...

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Bless him, he meant well ^_^

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Next time, hopefully, Watson will ask for a demonstration before Holmes provides the entertainment.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I think it's safest just to keep Holmes concentrating on the detective work ^_^

re: Tricky

[vaysh]

Holmes as a magician is such an awesome idea. And I love how your mind works, arriving from the Norwood Builder-scene to this Christmas fun with a bloodied rabbit. :)

Re: Tricky

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^^ It was either going to be this or Scotland Yard and the Baker Street boys forming a choir. (All those yells of "fire!" in chorus... ^^)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

This was such fun!
I love it when genius Holmes slightly misses the mark.

Thank you for sharing your thought pattern.

"When I hear you give your reasons, the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled, until you explain your process." (SCAN)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^^ And I think this is the first time that my thought processes have been compared to Holmes' ^_^

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Absolutely brilliant use of a textual pattern to create a hysterically funny, if slightly disturbing scene in which Holmes's vaunted intellect isn't quite enough to bring about the desired result. :D

And having "Kill the Wabbit" in my head is almost entirely coincidental.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I think your analysis may be a little more intelligent than my story deserves :P And for some reason, you mentioning "Kill the Wabbit" has led to Dick Dastardly singing "Stop the Pigeon" in my head... ^^"