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1. 1.

   'He came here this morning. He brought me this hat. He doesn't know who the owner is.'

   1. Who said these words and to whom were they said?
   2. Who is the 'he' being talked about?
   3. What was the other thing 'he' had brought to the speaker?
   4. Whose hat had been left at the speaker's house?
   5. What was the second object the person had brought the speaker and where had it gone?
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   1. The given words were said by the eminent detective Sherlock ...
   2. The ‘h...
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2. 2.

   'Surely you are joking. What kind of clues could you have got from this battered old hat?'

   1. Who said these words and to whom were they said?
   2. How did the person being spoken to react to the speaker's conclusions?
   3. What conclusions did the person being spoken to arrive at after examining the hat?
   4. What conclusions did the speaker come to after examining the hat?
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   1. The given words were spoken by Dr. Watson who was a friend a...
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   3. After examining the hat, Holmes arrived at the conclusion that the owner of the hat was highly intellectual and fairly well-to-do. However, within the last three years he had fallen upon hard times. He had foresight, but had less now. His wife had ceased to love him. He led a sedentary life, went out little, was out of training entirely, middl...
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3. 3.

   'Well, it is very ingenious, but since, as you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a waste of energy.'

   1. Who is the speaker?
   2. Who had been very ingenious and in what way?
   3. What happened soon after these words were spoken?
   4. Why was it not a waste of energy after all?
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   1. The speaker was the eminent detective who lived at Baker Str...
   2. Holmes himself had been very ingenious with all the deductions that he had made about the owner of the hat, after careful speculation of the hat itself, because there was no crime...
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   4. It was not a was...
4. 4.

   'So now we must set ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and finding out what part he has played in this little mystery.'

   1. Who is the speaker and who is 'we'?
   2. Who is 'this gentleman'?
   3. Why was it necessary to find him?
   4. How did they find him?
5. 5.

   'Oh, certainly, certainly!' (gives a sigh of relief)

   1. Who said these words and to whom were they said?
   2. Why did he give a sigh of relief?
   3. Why was he upset earlier?
   4. What question did the person spoken to ask the speaker and how did his answer help to solve the problem?
6. 6.

   What happened at Mr. Breckinridge's turkey stall that helped Holmes and Watson to solve the mystery?