50835    'I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you.'

50836    'Seven,' I answered.

50837    'Indeed, I should have thought a little more.

50838    Just a trifle more, I fancy, Watson.

50839    And in practice again, I observe.

50840    You did not tell me that you intended to go into harness.'

50841    'Then, how do you know?'

50842    'I see it, I deduce it.

50843    How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?'

50844    'My dear Holmes,' said I, 'this is too much.

50845    You would certainly have been burned had you lived a few centuries ago.

50846    It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess; but, as I have changed my clothes, I can't imagine how you deduce it.

50847    As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice; but there again I fail to see how you work it out.'

50848    He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long nervous hands together.

50849    'It is simplicity itself,' said he; 'my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts.