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The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter 1 It was pleasant for Watson to walk up the stairs once more to the untidy room on the first floor in Baker Street which was the starting point of so many remarkable adventures. He looked around him at the scientific charts and the bench of chemicals in the corner. Finally, his eyes met the smiling face of Billy, the great detective's young servant. “Hello, Billy. I was visiting a friend nearby when I decided to come and see Holmes. Is he in?” Billy glanced at the closed door of the bedroom. “I think he's asleep in bed,” he said. It was seven in the evening of a lovely summer's day, but Watson was sufficiently familiar with the irregularity of his old friend's hours to feel no surprise at the idea. “That means a case, I suppose?” “Yes, sir. He spent the day following someone. Yesterday, he went out dressed as a workman looking for a job. Today, he was an old woman.” Watson frowned....

Pirates The golden age of pirates was during the 1600s and the 1700s. Pirates sailed the seas, attacking other ships and robbing whatever was on them, hoping to find treasure. They fought using guns or swords and captured or even killed the sailors of the enemy ship. Many books have been written about pirates, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. But what were real pirates like? Were they all dirty men wearing a patch over one eye, ripped clothes and with a parrot on one shoulder? How much of the traditional image of a pirate is fact and how much fiction? It's impossible to imagine a pirate without thick, gold earrings and actually it was quite normal. Some say that pirates never felt seasick while they were wearing them. The idea that all pirates had parrots comes from a character in the book Treasure Island named Long John Silver, who had a parrot. It's true that pirates used to keep animals on the ship for fresh meat but keeping a parrot isn’t...