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Extra Reading The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead with
the footprints of a huge dog beside his body.
Everyone thinks that the hound of the
Baskervilles, the terrible dog that has cursed
the Baskerville family for centuries, is to
blame. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
go to investigate the murder.
olmes does not say much as we go
Hback towards the moor. I do not
know what he intends to do. The moor is
covered with fog.
“Ah! I can see the lights of a house ahead
of us,” says the policeman, Lestrade.
“That is Merripit House, the home of the
Stapletons. We are going there,” Holmes
tells him.
We move slowly along the path towards “Listen!” cries Holmes. “Look out! It is
the house. Then Holmes stops. coming!”
“Let’s wait here,” he says. “Watson, go to Holmes is staring into the fog. He looks
the house and see what they are doing. shocked. At the same moment Lestrade
Make sure they don’t see you.” cries out in terror. In front of us is a
I go down the path and hide behind a wall. hound, an enormous black hound. There
I can see into the dining room. Sir Henry is fire coming from its mouth, and its huge
and Stapleton are sitting at a round table. eyes are glowing.
Then Stapleton leaves the room. I hear The huge black creature runs down the
the creak of a door and the sound of boots path after Sir Henry. Holmes and I both
upon gravel. Someone is walking along the fire our guns. We hit him and the hound
path on the other side of the wall. I look howls in pain. But the hound does not
over and see Stapleton by the door of a stop. He is still running along the path
shed in the corner of the garden. He opens after Sir Henry. Sir Henry looks back at
the door and there is a strange noise from the terrible thing behind him. His face is
inside. After a minute he comes out of the white in the moonlight.
shed and locks the door once more. Then We run up the path as quickly as we can.
he goes back into the house and joins Sir Sir Henry is screaming and the hound is
Henry at the table. I hurry back to report roaring. Suddenly I see the hound jump
everything to Lestrade and Holmes. on Sir Henry and push him to the ground.
There is now a thick white fog over the Holmes points his gun and shoots the
moor. The moon is shining on it. hound five times. With a last howl, it rolls
“The fog is getting thicker,” says Holmes. on its back. The giant hound is dead.
“This is serious – Sir Henry must go home Sir Henry is lying on the path. We run
soon.” to him and find that he is alive. “Oh, my
“I think he’s coming.” God!” he whispers.
We hear footsteps. Then suddenly we see “It is dead, Sir Henry,” says Holmes. “The
Sir Henry walking towards us through the Hound of the Baskervilles is gone forever.”
fog. He walks quickly along the path and “Thank you for saving my life,” says Sir
climbs up the hill behind us. Henry.
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