Monthly Prompt: September

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September was once of course the seventh month—and so our chosen prompt is:



Seven



ACD makes very good use of this number in canon. Here are seven quotations to get the imagination going:



“It is cocaine,” he said,—“a seven-per-cent solution.”

“Wedlock suits you,” he remarked. “I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you.” “Seven!” I answered.

“I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would cover the facts as far as we know them."

“Is he your junior?” “Seven years my senior.”

“In reaching the door he would have to pass seven bedrooms." (*waggles eyebrows at Okapi*)

The station clock marked only seven minutes from the time when we were due to start.

“Hopkins has called me in seven times, and on each occasion his summons has been entirely justified,” said Holmes.




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