The Hound of the Baskervilles: The Boot Boy

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Canon Story: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chaps. 5-8
Title: The Boot Boy
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: "My missing boot!" he cried. "...the waiter must have placed it there while we were lunching." The German was sent for but professed to know nothing of the matter...


Franz rushed in.

“The brown boot’s turned up!”

Edwin looked up from his polishing. “Thank Gawd. I might’ve got the boot if it hadn’t.”

Franz paused. “Äh..?”

Edwin nodded.

“And you might have been in trouble to boot.”

Franz shook his head. “What a strange language. Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof.”

Edwin frowned.

“Blimey. Now the boot’s on the other foot.”



A/N: "Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" translates literally as "I only understand 'railway station'." Idiomatically, it means "It's all Greek to me."

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Oh, Edwin, Edwin...A nice scene, and thanks for sharing that German idiom.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^_^ And I've only just learned that idiom myself. 1889 might be a bit early for it - but I saw on a forum that it was possible, and it fits so neatly for my 60 ^^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Brilliant use of the boot idioms.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^_^ (I've had a look at your clerihew - I see we were thinking along the same lines ^^")

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Idioms! The slayer of many!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

But what a way to go! ^_^ One of the most fun parts of a language I think ^^

[debriswoman]

A study in confusion:-)
Neatly done.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much ^_^

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I presume Edwin was one of your relations?

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes - I'm merely keeping up the family tradition of terrible wordplay :P