I have a kind of intuition that way.

Now and again a case turns up which is a little more complex.

Then I have to bustle about and see things with my own eyes.

You see I have a lot of special knowledge which I apply to the problem, and which facilitates matters wonderfully.
Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your scorn, are invaluable to me in practical work.

Observation with me is second nature.