00:00:11 – > The Musgrave Ritual
00:00:13 – > An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes
00:00:18 – > was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind,
00:00:23 – > and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress,
00:00:27 – > he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
00:00:34 – > Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself.
00:00:38 – > The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition,
00:00:44 – > has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man.
00:00:47 – > But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle,
00:00:53 – > his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper,
00:00:56 – > and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece,
00:01:03 – > then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
00:01:06 – > I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime;
00:01:12 – > and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours,
00:01:15 – > would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges,
00:01:20 – > and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks,
00:01:26 – > I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.