The Stock-broker's Clerk: Substitute

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Canon Story: The Stock-broker's Clerk
Title: Substitute
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: "And the practice?" “I do my neighbour's when he goes. He is always ready to work off the debt."


“Where do you think Anstruther goes?” mused Mary. “When you look after his practice?”

“Hmm..?” Watson stared at his patient’s notes and sighed. No more adventures until Mrs. Thorpe had recovered.


***
“The doctor’s here at last, Mr. Holmes!”

“Do send him up, Mrs. Hudson!”


Holmes beamed as the new arrival hurried in.

“Good man, Anstruther. Thank you for standing in!”

Comments

[garonne.livejournal.com]

Nice one!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^__^

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Holmes, not just responsible for the reduction in one medical practice, but two!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

He's a little terror ^__^

[debriswoman]

Well, at least I know now why there is a shortage of GPs...
:-p

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed... *giggles*

[debriswoman]

*stern look*

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Sadly, Holmes is rather a dick to his substitute partner: "A pit of vipers. You'd better go in first, Anstruther," "I'll fetch the police, Anstruther, you can fight off the street gang." "Taste this, Anstruther. Lestrade says it's arsenic but I insist it's strychnine."

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

This made me laugh a great deal ^___^ Poor Anstruther - not quite as handsome and dashing as Watson perhaps... (Someone really needs to write The Unfortunate Adventures of Holmes and Anstruther ^_^)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Something like Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker - "MEEP!" "Oh, come now Anstruther, the vicious mastiff won't be any trouble at all." "MEEP MEEP MEEP!"

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

D'you know, that's spot on ^___^ *falls over laughing*

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Very good and satisfactory. I do like that bit about Mrs Thorpe.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^_^ And, yes, Watson sometimes remembered he had patients ^^