"It was a singular document.
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember.

Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

Those, I think, were the main points of my analysis." Holmes grinned at the last item.

"Well," he said, "I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Now, for such a case as the one which has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster all our resources.