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.”

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Leave it to Watson to have a handlebar moustache when he's 8 years old.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Luckily, when he got older he was allowed to shave and trim it ^__^

[debriswoman]

Figures:-p

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Indeed it does ^___^

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I am not timid, I am merely cautious, as befits a creature of my size - nobody wants to be accidentally sat on by the sloth.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ah, the "Doc Holliday" look!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

How very true ^^"

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Bit more difficult to carry off while at an English public school ^__^