The Creeping Man: Old Dog New Tricks

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Creeping Man: Old Dog New Tricks
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: Crack a doodle doo.
Summary: There’s a place for everybody.

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The well-dressed Englishman had a French accent. “Professor Presbury. I could use a man like you back home.” And repeated the phrase in the Professor’s new language, flawlessly.

Presbury stopped grooming the young man’s hair, astonished, and hooted back.

“He’ll be coming back with me to my African birthplace,” the man said.

Bennett wrung his hand. “Thank you, Lord Greystoke.”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! I'm sure he'll be very happy there.

[debriswoman]

An excellent link:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Very clever connection. I'm certain ACD's bummed he did not think of something similar.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"Oh great, another hairless ape," mutter the other members of the troop. "There goes the neighborhood."

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

It helps that a friend once misattributed the Sherlock Holmes stories to Edgar Rice Burroughs rather than ACD. 3-named authors of pulp adventure stories at the turn of the same century - easy mistake to make.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"Well, Lord Greystoke, beyond the obvious facts that you were born in Africa - most likely the west coast - that your parents were killed when you were an infant, and that you were subsequently raised by wild apes, I can deduce little about you."

"Mr. Holmes, that's amazing! How did you learn that?"

"If you would kindly stop grooming Dr. Watson and climb down from the top of the divan, I will be happy to elucidate."

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

^_____^

Just when you think you've read every possible crossover... I greatly enjoyed this - echoing the applause for the neat connection ^__^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I once had a friend mis-remember the author of the SH stories as Edgar Rice Burroughs, and that crossover did come to my mind!

[mafief.livejournal.com]

::googles Edgar Rice Burroughs:: Tarzan! Ok, got it. :)
Yes, those two would do well together.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Not everyone knows that the actual full name of Tarzan of the Apes is John Clayton Tarzan, aka Lord Greystoke.