Sir Author Conan Doyle
r. Sherlock Holmes
who was usually very late in the
mornings
save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was
up all night
was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the
hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left
behind him the night before. It was a fine
thick piece of wood
bulbous-headed
of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch
across. "To James Mortimer
M.R.C.S.
from his friends of the
C.C.H.
was engraved upon it, with the date
1884
It was
just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to
carry -- dignified
solid
and reassuring.