"Occupation ?" "M.D., three C's, double X., two I's." "H'm! What do you do ?" "Trap, mostly." "Religious ?" "When I'm skeered." "Nativity ?" "Which ?" "What is your parentage?
Where were you born ?" "Well, my father was an Englishman, my mother was a Scotchman, I was born in Ireland, raised in Canady, and have lived for ten year in Number Nine." "How does your head feel now ?" "It feels as if every har was a pin.

Do you s'pose it'll strike in ?" The Doctor looked him over as if he were a bullock, and went on with his statistics: "Weight, about two hundred pounds; height, six feet two; temperament, sanguine-bilious." "Some time when you are in Sevenoaks," said the Doctor, slipping his pencil into its sheath in his note-book, and putting his book in his pocket, "come and see me." "And stay all night ?" inquired Jim, innocently.
"I'd like to see the case again," said Dr.Radcliffe, nodding.

"I shall not detain you long.

The matter has a certain scientific interest." "Well, good-bye, Doctor," said Jim, holding down his hair.

"I'm off for Number Nine.