Name: John Watson Watson）
Gender: Male
Nationality: United Kingdom
Hobbies and habits
The first is smoking. In The Study of Blood Letters, Watson introduces himself to Holmes and mentions that he always smokes boat brand cigarettes. (But there's a ambiguity here: the original word for ship's is "ship's," and does Watson prefer the smoke smoked by the crew or the "ship" cigarette?) ）
Regarding this ambiguity, here are several types of statements:
In her article "Crew or Ship Sign, Just a Problem," Shelley Jean points out that both the English Slang Dictionary and the Soldiers' and Crew Slang Dictionary mention that "ship's" means "cocoa smoked on board."
Jack Tracy argues in the Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia that this refers to "the special supply of smoke by the crew tobacco shop, a strong mixture of smokes made in Northumbury and loved by seafarers".
William H. S. Baring-Gould believes that Watson began smoking brand cigarettes on the troop carrier: the "Orentiz". However, as mentioned earlier, Watson's "health is already terrible, almost to the point of being difficult to recover", and it seems impossible to smoke.
W.E. Edwards believed that Watson had started smoking brand cigarettes on a ship bound for India.
In Hunchback, Holmes says that Watson is still "smoking the same Arcadian mixture you smoked before marriage", which shows that Watson gave up smoking ship brand cigarettes soon after. This "Arcadia mixed cigarette" is a fictional tobacco variety.
This is followed by Watson's pets. In The Study of Blood Letters, Watson claims to have a little tiger-headed dog, but the tiger-headed dog is never mentioned in later pages, and Robert Watson is the first to be the first to do so. S. Morgan argues in The Mystery of the Tiger-Headed Dog that shortly after Watson moved to Baker Street, the dog died in "The Study of Blood Letters" in which Holmes served as an experiment in the case.
And music and literature.
In "The Study of Blood Letters," Watson mentions that "if it weren't for the fact that he often pulled up a few of my favorite pieces after these pieces, as a small compensation for my patience, I would have jumped up." ”
Emmanuel Barrig speculated that Watson's favorite pieces included William B. Barriger. Works by S. Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan. The victorian duo, a well-known Victorian group, co-authored fourteen comedies from 1871 to 1896.
Watson probably liked their Jury Judgment (1875), Patience (1881), etc.
Guy Varek thinks Watson also liked Mendelssohn's "On the Wings of Song."
10.29.2021