jabez wilson, a red-haired london pawnbroker, comes to consult sherlock holmes and doctor watson. he tells them that some weeks before his young assistant, vincent spaulding, urged him to respond to a newspaper want-ad offering work to only red-headed male applicants. the next morning, wilson had waited in a long line of fellow red-headed men, was interviewed and was the only applicant hired, because none of the other applicants had hair to match wilson's red locks.
wilson, whose business mainly operates in evenings, was well-paid, receiving four pounds a week for several weeks (equal to £330 today); [1] the work was obviously useless clerical work in a bare office. finally one morning, a sign on the locked office door inexplicably announced that "the red-headed league is dissolved."
wilson then went to the landlord, who said that he had never heard of duncan ross, the person who managed the league office. the landlord did remember the tenant with scarlet hair and gives him a card which directs wilson to an artificial knee company. wilson ends the story with how frustrated he is losing the four-pounds-a-week.
holmes and watson laugh a little over the ridiculous situation, but holmes assures him that by monday they would have the case solved. after holmes' client, wilson, leaves (having given the detective a description of spaulding), holmes decides to go and see spaulding, whom holmes notices has dirty trouser knees. holmes then taps on the pavement in front of the pawnbroker's shop. with the case solved, he calls police inspector jones and mr. merryweather, a director of the bank located next door.
the four secrete themselves in the bank vault and confront the thieves, john clay, who has a long history of criminal activity already, and his helper archie. under the alias of spaulding and ross, they had contrived the 'red-headed league' rigmarole to keep wilson out of his shop while they dug in the basement, in order to break into the bank vault next door.
back at baker street, holmes explains to watson how he solved the case.
my favourite sport
my favourite sport is tennis.i have tennis lessons every saturday morning at my local sports centre .in the summer i play tennis with my friends every day.i like tennis because it is great fun and you do exercise at the same time.
you need a racet and special tennis balls to play. there are two players or four players.i sometimes play with my dad.he is terrible and i always beat him.
my favourite tennis player is rafa nadal from spain .he is very toung and very strong.i don*t like lieyton hewitt because is very rude and ugly.
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Put the following sentences into indirect speech
объяснение:
the students read in the book,that as the lowest criminal court ,a magistrate court was empowered to hear certain cases only.
julie had said to her groupmates ,that when the headmaster had entered the classroom,two students had been writing the composition and jack had been answering the teacher's question about the history of courts.
peter had asked his friend if he knew what court of exchequer meant.
the lecturer had affirmed that the supreme court of the judicature had been formed in 1873 from the merging of various courts then existing.
mary had asked the exconvist what he had missed most when he had been in prison .
every low student confirms ,that when a person was accused of a crime it must had been proven that he was guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt".
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