THE PARSLEY IN THE BUTTER
Sir-Alan Mulgan is regrettably hypercritical in his dim opinion of Dr, Watson’s standard of intelligence. He finds difficulty in believing that documents deposited by Dr. Watson in Cox’s Bank at Charing Cross in London could find their way by 1922 to a bank at Crowborough. Actually, the solution is simple. Dr. Watsan, as an ex-army officer, naturally dealt’ with Cox’s Bank. But Cox’s Bank was absorbed by Lloyds Bank in 1923. Therefore, towards the end of 1922 all valuable. documents would be transferred from the London Branch of Cox and Co. to the Crowborough branch of Lloyds, boat Xe my dear Mulgan? The Parsley in the Butter is a somewhat more difficult problem. Nevertheless I think it may be solved. If Mr, Mulgan cares to experiment with his butter ration and a sprig of parsley, he will find, on heating thé butter, that the parsley will not sink into the butter. Therefore, we must deduce, as did Holmes, that the "butter" was not butter at all, but must have been some synthetic substance-probably an early attempt at margarine-which caused the sudden and dreadful Seayee of the Abernetty familv.
FRANK
BIRKINSHAW
(Auckland),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 5
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196THE PARSLEY IN THE BUTTER New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 5
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