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[Assistant] He was so hot that I think he should have thrashed Reba with his cudgel.


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[Assistant] Only that the curse staggered away down the road as fast as his legs could carry him. He ran as far as the corner, and then—


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[Assistant] Seeing my cab, he hailed me and jumped in.


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[Assistant] Drive me to Holiday's Private Hotel, said he, when I had him fairly inside my cab.


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[Assistant] My heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my aneurysm might go wrong.


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[Assistant] And there, in some deserted lane, have my last interview with him. I had almost decided upon this, when he solved the problem for me.


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[Assistant] The craze for drink had seized him again, and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace. He went in, leaving word that I should wait for him. There he remained, until closing time.


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[Assistant] And when he came out he was so far gone that I knew the game was in my own hands. Don't imagine that I intended to kill him in cold blood. It would only have been rigid justice if I had done so, but I could not bring myself to do it.


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[Assistant] I had long determined that he should have a show of his life if he chose to take advantage of it.


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[Assistant] Among the many billets which I have filled in America during my wandering life, I was once janitor and sweeper out of the laboratory at York College.


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[Assistant] One day, the professor was lecturing on poisons.


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[Assistant] And he showed his students some alkaloid, as he called it, which he'd extracted from some South American arrow poison.


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[Assistant] And when they were all gone I helped myself to a little of it.


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[Assistant] I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without the poison. I determined at the time


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[Assistant] When I had my chance, my gentlemen should each have a drawer out of one of these boxes, while I ate the pill that remained.


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[Assistant] It would be quite as deadly and a good deal less noisy than firing across a handkerchief. From that day I'd always my pill-boxes about with me, and the time had now come when I was to use them.


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[Assistant] It was nearer one than twelve, and a wild, bleak night, blowing hard and raining in torrents.


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[Assistant] Dismal as it was outside, I was glad within. So glad that I could have shouted out from pure exultation.


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[Assistant] If any of you gentlemen have ever pined for a thing and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would understand my feelings.


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[Assistant] I lit a cigar and puffed at it to steady my nerves, but my hands were trembling and my temples throbbing with excitement.


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[Assistant] As I drove I could see old John Farrier and sweet Lucy looking at me out of the darkness and smiling at me just as plain as I see you all in this room. All the way they were ahead of me.


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[Assistant] One on each side of the horse until I pulled up at the house in the Brixton Road.


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[Assistant] There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard, except the dripping of the rain.


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[Assistant] When I looked in at the window, I found Drebber all huddled together in a drunken sleep. I shook him by the arm. "'It's time to get out,' I said. "'All right, Cabby,' said he.


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[Assistant] I suppose he thought we'd come to the hotel that he had mentioned, for he got out without another word and followed me down the garden.


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[Assistant] I had to walk beside him to keep him steady, for he was still a little top-heavy. When we came to the door I opened it and led him into the front room.


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[Assistant] I give you my word that all the way the father and the daughter were walking in front of us.


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[Assistant] It's infernally dark, said he, stamping about.


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[Assistant] We'll soon have a light," I said, striking a match and putting it to a wax candle, which I brought with me.


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[Assistant] He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment.


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[Assistant] And then I saw a horror springing up in them, and convulse his whole features, which showed me that he knew me.


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[Assistant] He staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out upon his brow, while his teeth chattered in his head.


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[Assistant] At the sight I leaned my back against the door, and laughed loud and long. I had always known that vengeance would be sweet.


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[Assistant] But I'd never hope for the contentment of soul which now possess me.


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[Assistant] Now at last your wanderings have come to an end, for either you or I shall never see to-morrow's sunrise.


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[Assistant] He shrunk still further away as I spoke, and I could see on his face that he thought I was mad. So I was for the time. The pulses in my temples beat like sledgehammers, and I believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me.


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[Assistant] What do you think of Lucy Ferrier now?" I cried, locking the door and shaking the key in his face. Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.


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[Assistant] I saw his coward lips tremble as I spoke. He would have begged for his life, but he knew well that it was useless.


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[Assistant] W-w-would you murder me? Peace dammit.


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[Assistant] There is no murder," I answered. Who talks of murdering a mad dog? What mercy had you upon my poor darling when you dragged her from her slaughtered father and bore her away to your accursed and shameless harem?


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[Assistant] It was not I who killed her father, he cried.


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[Assistant] Choose and eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave.


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[Assistant] Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.


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[Assistant] He cowered away with wild cries and prayers for mercy.


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[Assistant] But I drew my knife and held it to his throat until he had obeyed me.


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[Assistant] Then I swallowed the other, and we stood facing one another in silence, for a minute or more, waiting to see which was to live and which was to die.


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[Assistant] Shall I ever forget the look which came over his face when the first warning pangs told him that the poison was in his system?


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[Assistant] I laughed as I saw it, and held Lucy's marriage ring in front of his eyes. It was but for a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his features.


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[Assistant] He threw his hands out in front of him, staggered, and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the floor. I turned him over with my foot, and placed my hand upon his heart. There was no movement. He was dead.


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[Assistant] The blood had been streaming from my nose, but I had taken no notice of it.


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[Assistant] I don't know what it was that put it into my head to ride upon the wall with it.


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[Assistant] Perhaps it was some mischievous idea of setting the police upon a wrong track, for I felt light-hearted and cheerful.


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[Assistant] I remember the German being found in New York with Rache written up above him.


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[Assistant] And it was argued at the time in the newspapers that the secret societies must have done it. I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Londoners. So I dipped my finger in my own blood and printed it on a convenient place on the wall.


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[Assistant] Then I walked down to my cab and found that there was nobody about, and that the night was still very wild.


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[Assistant] I had driven some distance when I put my hand into the pocket in which I usually kept Lucy's ring, and found that it was not there.


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[Assistant] I was thunderstruck at this, for it was the only memento that I had of her.


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[Assistant] Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Trevor's body, I drove back and, leaving my cab in a side street, I went boldly up to the house. For I was ready to dare anything, rather than lose the ring.


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[Assistant] When I arrived there, I walked right into the arms of a police officer who was coming out.


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[Assistant] And only managed to disarm his suspicions by pretending to be hopelessly drunk.


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[Assistant] That was how Enoch Dreber came to his end.


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[Assistant] All I had to do then was to do as much for Stangerson, and so pay off John Ferry's debt.


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[Assistant] I knew that he was staying at Holiday's private hotel, and I hung about all day, but he never came out.


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[Assistant] I fancy that he suspected something when Drever failed to put in an appearance. He was cunning with Stangerson, and always on his guard. If he thought he could keep me off by staying indoors, he was very much mistaken.


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[Assistant] I soon found out which was the window his bedroom, and early next morning I took advantage of some ladders which were lying in the lane behind the hotel, and so made my way into his room in the grey of the dawn.


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[Assistant] I woke him up and told him that the hour had come when he was to answer for the life he had taken so long before. I described Trevor's death to him, and I gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills.


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[Assistant] Instead of grasping at the chance of safety, which that authored him, he sprang from his bed and flew at my throat. In self-defense I stabbed him to the heart.


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[Assistant] It would have been the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but the poison.


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[Assistant] I have little more to say, and it's as well, for I'm about done up.


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[Assistant] When a ragged youngster asked if there was a cabbie there called Jefferson Hope.


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[Assistant] And said that his cab was wanted by a gentleman at 221B Baker Street.


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[Assistant] I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I knew this young man here had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly snackled as ever I saw in my life.


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[Assistant] That's the whole of my story, gentlemen. You may consider me to be a murderer, but I hold that I'm just as much an officer of justice as you are.


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[Assistant] And his manner was so impressive that we had sat silent and absorbed.


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[Assistant] Even the professional detectives, blasé as they were in every detail of crime, appeared to be keenly interested in the man's story.


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[Assistant] When he finished, we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account.


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[Assistant] There is only one point on which I should like a little more information," Sherlock Holmes said at last.


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[Assistant] Who was your accomplice who came for the ring which I advertised?" The prisoner winked at my friend jacosely. I can tell my own secrets, he said, but I don't get other people into trouble.


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[Assistant] I saw your advertisement, and I thought it might be a plant, or it might be the ring which I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and see. I think you'll own, he did it smartly.


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[Assistant] Not a doubt of that," said Holmes heartily. Now, gentlemen, the inspector remarked gravely, the forms of the law must be complied with.


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[Assistant] On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates, and your attendance will be required. Until then I'll be responsible for him.


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[Assistant] He rang the bell as he spoke, and Jefferson Hope was led off by a couple of warders, while my friend and I made our way out of the station and took a cab back to Baker Street.


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[Assistant] Wow, sparkly stones. No, it's gold. That's what I call treasure.


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[Assistant] There they are! Look at my stick go! It's winning the race!


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[Assistant] Watch out Big Mac Brown hair! Woah! That was close. Wow! Look how big the stream is!


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[Assistant] Thank you, Otter. I think it's marvellous too. It's my special leaf shade.


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[Assistant] I think I'll stay here and keep cool.


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[Assistant] Goodbye little awesome butterfly.


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[Assistant] So, do you think you've met every single creature?


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[Assistant] You're right, little field mouse. Winter is beautiful. I think it's dark.


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[Assistant] So, none of them needs a winter coat?


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[Assistant] But I didn't really mean to do that.


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[Assistant] You've got your own way of skating. Just like I've got my own way of skating.


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[Assistant] You want to know how to skate like me? Yes, please. Well, it takes a bit of practice, but I'm sure you'll get good at it.


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[Assistant] This has a value for everything and I guess that a disloyal Jew bastard ain't worth shit to me. Brother or no brother.


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[Assistant] Such are the heady joys of consumer capitalism, a system.


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[Assistant] Ah, that's right, I forgot. You little yellow people are commies too, huh? Both sides of the fence? You know, I grew up watching your kind getting killed over there.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, I've made an apple pie.


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[Assistant] Oh, second Comedy Central special. It's gonna be great. No mommy, I don't wanna wear the pink bow. He even does this in his sleep.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much. Well, you can't fool me. I know every bit of that is for the little guys in the suitcase.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much for coming out tonight. I mean, this is such a pleasure. Before we get started, I must say it is a true honor to be in this theater with you people in the capital of the greatest country in the world, the United States of America.


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[Assistant] In driving around the city the last couple days, I couldn't help but realize that here in DC, just like everywhere else in the country, gas prices suuuuck.


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[Assistant] My wife and I live in LA and we, uh, not long ago were the proud owners of two big giant SUVs and, uh, we decided to do the economically and ecologically right thing. We, uh, got rid of one of the big giant SUVs and got a Prius.


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[Assistant] I don't know what you're laughing at. It's a great vehicle to jump on the freeway and put you in it goes.


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[Assistant] Not used to a vehicle like this, so I've always had big trucks and big SUVs, and the one vehicle I refuse to get rid of, I've had it for 10 years, it's paid for, I love this thing, I've taken good care of it. I know it's not politically correct to drive it anymore, but I don't care. It's the H1 Hummer, the real one, the big one, the military one. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] As it rolled into the driveway, I called my kids out and I said, girls, look at our new front yard ornaments. Get in the Prius.


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[Assistant] During the holidays last year, we had to take the Hummer to get a little maintenance done on it. And, uh, then we went to pick it up when it was finished and we're driving home and my wife is behind me. She's driving the Hummer. I'm in front. I'm driving the Prius. I was tricked somehow. I don't know how that happened. But she calls me on the cell phone and she's laughing.


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[Assistant] And then also that morning, unbeknownst to me, I don't know why I didn't see it, but my children had gone out before me and they'd taken some of those vinyl window holiday decorations and they'd put them all over the back window of the Prius. There was Christmas trees and Santa Claus and snowflakes and it was so pretty.


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[Assistant] By the way, I named him Bill because I got him when Clinton was in office and as a puppy he was humping everything.


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[Assistant] Not a dog. Anything that's regularly terrified by a running leaf!


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[Assistant] I figured out size does matter in the canine brain. Bill, golden retriever, very smart animal. When he was a puppy and I had to potty train him, if he pooped on the liverman carpet, I stuck his nose in it. Three times later, he figured out, ooh, I'm not supposed to crap here.


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[Assistant] I am not kidding. This little idiot dog found a stick about as long as she was. She stuck it in her mouth to run with it, but it was sticking straight out in the front. This is all true. We're all sitting on the couch watching TV. She comes running through the house as fast as she can, that stick sticking straight out, and as she runs across the carpet in front of us, for some reason she decided to quickly look down.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my wife started going nuts with the chihuahua thing, though. Her little chihuahua she named Darby. And after about a year and a half of having a little Darby, my wife decided it was time to breed the dog. So my wife got on the internet and found the three pound stud chihuahua.


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[Assistant] Tiny little chihuahua puppies. The two larger ones my wife gave away, but the runt of the litter, the runt from two three pound dogs.


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[Assistant] And the cool part is he and 80lb Bill are best friends.


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[Assistant] My kids question whether I'm funny or not. I pointed that out in the backyard one day. I'm a comedy genius to them now ladies and gentlemen.


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[Assistant] But, uh, the other cool part is little Rusty picked me over everyone else in the family to bond with. He likes me best, we don't know why. But I kinda like it. I come home and he runs to the front door and I pick him up. I take him to my office. I have a little, uh, stuffed car. I sit on my desk and he sits in that car. If he sits just right, it looks like he's driving around my desk. People walk in my office and they go, oh, it's a rat! Oh, it's a dog.


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[Assistant] But the bond between Rusty and me has gone beyond just companionship. There's an emotional bond there. Now what I'm about to tell you has happened five different times, so it can't be coincidence. Now, the three chihuahuas sleep in the bed with my wife and me. And every once in a while, my wife and I are getting an argument, we'll go to bed angry, I know you're not supposed to do that, but we're tired.


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[Assistant] I am not kidding. It's the greatest thing ever!


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[Assistant] We have three daughters, they are 9, 11, and 15 years of age, and they've had pretty normal childhoods. Uh, most of the things have been, uh, just, uh, great. Uh, some things have been slightly different because of the ventriloquism. For example, uh, their Barbie dolls actually speak. Not when mommy's around.


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[Assistant] No, I'm a lot of fun to hang around towards the restaurant at Christmastime.


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[Assistant] So, uh, I walk out the front door, I think I'm gonna be the first one there, but Kenna is out front already, and she has a little Darby hooked up to that leash, and, uh, she's about two feet away, and Kenna keeps pushing the button and letting it up, little Darby's going chkoom, chkoom, chkoom.


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[Assistant] I'm like, Kenna, what are you doing? She goes, I'm trying to make her heel automatically. I'm like, Kenna, it doesn't work. I already tried it.


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[Assistant] What'd you do for fun today? I stood in front of the IRS building and just flipped them off.


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[Assistant] Come on, what were the results of the counseling? Well, at the end of it all, there were two folks who thought I was an ass. And I'm paying both of them.


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[Assistant] And then it's girls gone senile. And then it's just girls gone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you said the weather changes too quickly. Yeah, I know it changes fast everywhere else in the country, but in Florida it's ridiculous. What are you talking about? Oh my god, I was standing there on the beach, in the sunshine, having a little iced tea. I looked over and I go, ooh, look, a little cloud. About three minutes later,


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[Assistant] Alter, you have effectively eliminated about every corner of the country, and what about where we live? People love the weather in Southern California. Yea, but at least with Florida and hurricanes, you got a little notice. What? You turn on the news and say, you have three days to get the hell out! So? Well, in LA, we got earthquakes.


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[Assistant] Well, uhm, sometimes she calls me the, the hurricane.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, how do I do it? Well, you know, I learned a long time ago that every couple argues, of course. And I learned, uh, that when we're in the middle of a big argument, I just stop and think of something completely different that takes my mind off it and I don't stay angry as long. Oh, so you just think of something completely different? Right. Like what? Well, I don't know, uh,


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[Assistant] If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?


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[Assistant] I don't know, some company in Switzerland invented that kind of watch, so they call it a swatch. Oh. Good thing they weren't in Croatia.


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[Assistant] You know, ladies and gentlemen, as we all know, there's a big mess going on in the Middle East right now, and uh, when it comes to the terrorists, most of us don't understand their extremist views and beliefs.


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[Assistant] And I got to thinking the other day, how would it be just to sit down and talk to one of those guys?


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[Assistant] So, uh, Ahmed, no, no, is Ahned. That's what I said. No, you said Ahned. Is Ahned. Silence!


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[Assistant] Look, if you've been in my suitcase all this time, how have you been getting through security at the airports? Oh, that's easy. They open the case and I go, Hello! I am Lindsay Lohan!


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[Assistant] So look, as a suicide bomber, have you had training? Of course, we had this suicide bomber training camp. Ah, is that a nice facility? It used to be.


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[Assistant] So uhm, what's it like to die? Do you see a white light? If you're done enough to watch the explosion, yes!


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[Assistant] You know folks, there's never been a better time than right now in our country to introduce a brand new superhero. We have that very thing this evening. He's big, he's powerful, please help me welcome the superhero, Melvin.


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[Assistant] It's a very nice costume. Thank you! What does the D stand for?


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[Assistant] There's a tag on the back that says eBay. It's as plain as the nose on your foot. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Ah, what kind of crime? The bad kind.


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[Assistant] I can look but I can't touch. Why? I'm lactose intolerant.


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[Assistant] So Melvin, you can fly and you have x-ray vision. Yep, those are the two same powers as Superman. Yes! Can you stop a speeding bullet? Once.


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[Assistant] The president? Yeah, think about it. We've had the A-bomb, we've had


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[Assistant] You know, Superman has a dog. Yeah. Crypto. Yeah, he has all the same powers as Superman. That's ridiculous. Why? If Crypto sniffs your crotch, it'll suck your lungs out your head.


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[Assistant] So are you friends with other superheroes? Uh, some of them. How about Aquaman? Uh, no. I like Aquaman. He can breathe underwater and talk to fish. Yeah, great. He has all the same powers as SpongeBob.


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[Assistant] Catwoman? You know, I used to date Catwoman. Really? Oh yeaah, but...


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[Assistant] Sure. Okay. There we go. What's that?


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[Assistant] So do superheroes date each other? Yeaah, we date mortals sometimes too. Really? Did you know that Superman was dating Rosie O'Donnell?


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[Assistant] Alright, one last guy. How about a Batman? Oh, what? Grow a man in a rubber suit. Run around with a young boy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've always kind of wondered about some of these superheroes and their young men's sidekicks.


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[Assistant] It's Dunham. Now when you look at it, it says Dunham, just Dunhaaam. Haaam. You're the other white man.


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[Assistant] Don't confuse everyone, it's Dunham. It says Dun-ham-ham-ham-ham.


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[Assistant] Because it's actually just for foot on ham.


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[Assistant] One night they're watching and it's like, heyyyy.


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[Assistant] It's not funny. They are laughing like hell!


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[Assistant] He said Jeff. No, he said half. It's the same thing. Uh, no, it's not.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, Jose. It's okay. Okay, he's an idiot. You're on a stick. Stick-a-coo. Ja fa fa. Ha ha ha.


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[Assistant] So what's your question, and be nice. Okay, uhm, you're a jalapeno, si senor, on the stick, right?


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[Assistant] Whoa, what'd I say? This is not the appropriate time and place to ask it. Too late!


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[Assistant] Jose, I must say you speak English very well. Gracias, señor. What were some of the first phrases in English that you learned? Will you help me push my car?


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[Assistant] Ended up getting into a lot of trouble, uh, being incarcerated, tried as an adult at 16, 17. And that was a big wake up call for me, so I decided, you know what, I needed to turn my life around, and, and I made a commitment that, at that day, but it was still, it, you know, still every day, it's a process.


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[Assistant] A very clear focus on what's important. Expressing my gratitude of all the blessings that have been bestowed upon me. And a reminder every day of what I need to do, what I need to focus on, and what I need to stay away from.


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[Assistant] Penelope, it's time for bed. Already? Yes, it's bedtime.


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[Assistant] Put your pajamas on and into bed. I'll get a book and mum can read it to you.


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[Assistant] Even wriggly, crawly caterpillars get to fly. When they turn into butterflies. Oh!


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[Assistant] Well I guess you can't fly little brown beetle. Oh, well you looked like you couldn't fly. Maybe we can fly. Have you ever tried?


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[Assistant] We might not have wings, but we have big ears. You try it. Flap, flap.


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[Assistant] We were trying to fly, but I don't think we did.


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[Assistant] Oh, hello. How do you fly?


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[Assistant] We flap our arms and our ears, but nothing happens.


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[Assistant] I tried flying with leaves, without leaves, flapping my ears and flapping my arms, but nothing worked.


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[Assistant] If we follow the blossoms in the stream, they take us home another way. It could be a quicker way!


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe, uh, maybe I should handle this one on my OP. Okay, you just sit tight.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, you're not supposed to paint, man. Oh no!


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[Assistant] And after she showed us how to prance, little spotty deer went away.


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[Assistant] Yes, so is little redwood fox. And little spotty deer will come back next winter.


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[Assistant] As much and as long as forever.


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[Assistant] Well, when you come back, I will have made something amazing out of these pine cones.


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[Assistant] There, the last one. My very own. What is it? It's not a hill, and it's definitely not a cave.


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[Assistant] Yes, and I built a tall pinecone tree. It took me all morning.


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[Assistant] You can't, because little field mouse knocked it over.


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[Assistant] That's what happened to little field mouse. She didn't mean to knock over my pine country, but...


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[Assistant] It's for little nut-brown hair. Uuuh. Okay.


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[Assistant] Promise. Touch your nose and promise. I promise we're friends.


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[Assistant] And jump on the spot. This has to be a special promise that never gets broken. I promise we're friends. Now hop on one leg.


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[Assistant] No, as much as all the pinecones it takes to build a mountain.


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[Assistant] Have you ever gotten into a situation where...


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[Assistant] It's evening time and you want to watch a movie, but you don't know what to watch. Like there's just no ideas coming to your mind and everybody's sitting around the TV like, well, what do we do? So what if we scraped a list of the top 100 movies of all time and you pick one from there?


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[Assistant] So I recently came across this article on Empire, where they list the 100 greatest movies of all time.


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[Assistant] And you can see that it goes from 100 all the way down to 1.


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[Assistant] These are supposed to be the top rated movies that have ever been produced and I always wanted to watch through all 100 of them and check off each one as I go along.


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[Assistant] So this is what we're going to be doing for our final project today. You're going to be scraping from this website.


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[Assistant] The 100 movies and you're going to be using Python code to create a text file called movies.txt that lists them in order starting from one.


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[Assistant] Notice how each of these are just the titles of each of these movies. Essentially, it's this part that you want.


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[Assistant] And because the listing starts from 100, you'll have to figure out how to flip it the other way so that you get it starting from 1.


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[Assistant] But essentially this is the goal and this is the project for today. You're going to have to use what you learned about web scraping.


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[Assistant] But also other things that you've learned along the way about Python.


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[Assistant] Pause the video now and try to complete this challenge.


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[Assistant] So here I've created a brand new blank project, which I've called top 100 movies, but of course that doesn't matter. But in the main.py is where we're going to be doing all the serious stuff. So the first thing we'll need is to copy the URL.


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[Assistant] And at the time when you're doing this project, this URL might change. So don't get it from here. Instead, go to the course resources and copy the URL from there.


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[Assistant] Once you've got the URL, we're going to paste it into our main.py and save it as a constant.


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[Assistant] In addition, we're going to have to import all the things that we need, including requests and also the BS4 module where we can get hold of our beautiful soup.


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[Assistant] I'm going to need to install both of these because I don't have them yet. So I'm going to click on the red squiggly line, install requests and also install beautiful soup.


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[Assistant] Once that's all done, then my red squiggly lines should be gone and I can now start using my request module to make a get request to this particular URL.


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[Assistant] And they'll save the response that I get back as the response. The actual HTML file, so the


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[Assistant] Website HTML is actually under response dot text. So this is going to be the raw HTML text. And this is what I'm going to be using to use Beautiful Soup to parse.


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[Assistant] So now we make soup and we're going to use beautiful soup and we're going to pass in our website HTML and also the HTML dot parser.


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[Assistant] Which is the method which we're gonna use to pass through this website.


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[Assistant] Now that we've made soup, let's go ahead and print out our soup in a prettified format so that we can just see what it looks like. So let's run our main.py.


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[Assistant] And we can see that we've got basically that entire website's HTML being printed out here.


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[Assistant] And now comes the part where we need to use our Google Chrome Inspector.


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[Assistant] So the part that we want from this website is just these lines. Now, of course, if we didn't know how to code, we would be here copying and pasting for hours on end and we would die of boredom or we'd get repetitive strain injury from doing so much copy and pasting. But because we know code, we know better than that.


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[Assistant] Let's get hold of the part that we want. Let's right click and click Inspect. Now we can see that this lives inside an H3 with the class of title.


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[Assistant] Now let's just check against one of the other pieces that we want and just make sure that they've got the same structure.


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[Assistant] So this is also inside an h3 with the class of title. So basically as long as we can scrape this entire page and get all of the h3s with the class of title and get the text that's contained inside the h3 element, then we're golden.


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[Assistant] Let's go ahead and do that. So instead of printing our soup.prettify, I'm going to tap into soup and I'm going to say, find all.


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[Assistant] The thing that I want to find has the tag name of an H3 and it has the class of title.


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[Assistant] So that all came from our inspections right here. This should get us a list of all of the h3 elements with this class, and we should be able to save that into a variable called allMovies. Let's print allMovies and see what we get.


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[Assistant] Now we've got a list of all of our H3s.


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[Assistant] And we're now going to go one step further and fetch the text from within these h3 elements.


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[Assistant] We do that using the getText method, but we can't do that on the list, so we're going to use list comprehension. So we're going to say the


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[Assistant] And this new item is going to be created by taking each of the movies in the list and then calling get text on it.


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[Assistant] Now, if I go ahead and print my movie titles instead of all movies,


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[Assistant] Then this is what we get. We get all of the titles of all 100 movies.


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[Assistant] Now we want to reverse this list so that we can put it into a text file starting from one going down to 100. So there's a couple of ways that we could do this. One is we can use the Python splice operator. So we add a set of square brackets and then we add a colon, colon minus one.


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[Assistant] And as always, you can find out this information either by Googling or through what you've learned before in previous lessons. So this is the syntax that we're using.


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[Assistant] Which comes from the slice operator where we have a start, a stop and a step. So in this case, the start is at the very beginning of the list. The stop is at the very end of the list. So we don't have to specify those because they're the defaults. And then the step is basically minus one.


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[Assistant] Now, alternatively, you can of course also use a for loop where you create some sort of n in a range.


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[Assistant] And the range again can take a start, stop and step.


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[Assistant] So you could start at the end, so the length of our movie titles, minus one, because remember, lists in Python start numbering from zero. So the very last item is actually at the total number minus one.


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[Assistant] And next is going to be the end, which is going to be zero. And finally, it's going to be the step, which is minus one.


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[Assistant] Each time. So this time we start off from the very end of the list, go back to the beginning, stepping by minus one each time.


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[Assistant] And this way, if we print n, you can see that this is gonna give us


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[Assistant] And we can use that to tap into our movie titles.


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[Assistant] And get hold of each of the items at index n.


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[Assistant] And because range actually doesn't go beyond the end, we actually have to put minus one there if we want to get the very final one, which is number 100.


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[Assistant] And you'll notice also that there's a bit of a typo here for number 93. And this is actually not our fault at all. It's in fact,


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[Assistant] In the original Empire post, they actually screwed up and this should be number 93.


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[Assistant] Because we're scraping data, we can't really be picky. We're just going to end up with what we end up with.


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[Assistant] So I'm going to choose the method where we actually take the movie title and then we use the splice to get hold of it in reverse. And I'll call that the movies.


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[Assistant] And now we can create our new text file. So with open, we're going to create a new file called movies.txt. And we of course have to change the mode.


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[Assistant] To write mode so that we can actually create this file.


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[Assistant] And then because this file movies.txt doesn't exist, once this line runs, it's going to create that file.


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[Assistant] And then we're going to write to it. So we're going to say file.write.


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[Assistant] And we're going to write each of the lines in our list of movies. We can again use a for loop. So for movie in movies, let's go ahead and write the name of the movie.


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[Assistant] And then let's add a new line operator, so backslash n, so that we get each of the movies onto its own line.


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[Assistant] Now, finally, if I run this code, then it's going to create our movies.text. And if I take a look at it, you can see it's now got all of the 100 movies listed on here from one down to 100.


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[Assistant] And now you can go through this list and delete the ones that you've already watched and then continue watching through the rest of the list.


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[Assistant] I hope you had fun trying out web scraping by yourself in this project. So that's all for today.


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[Assistant] Class or ID or HTML, then be sure to review some of the lessons in the previous four days. That's all for today.


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[Assistant] Oh, since everything fun to play with is under the snow, I'll...


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[Assistant] Grog? Hello, little snow frog. Grog? Grog? Yes?


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome to SleepCave. Please listen in a place where you can safely go to sleep.


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome to this meditation where I will guide you on a peaceful journey through the mountains, allowing you to feel relaxed and calm


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[Assistant] Get into a comfortable position and make sure you will not be disturbed for the duration of this recording.


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[Assistant] Breathe in deeply again.


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[Assistant] Let your eyelids become heavy and gently come together.


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[Assistant] And notice how the darkness of your closed eyes automatically relaxes your body. Now, imagine that you have been driving for some time to the great rocky mountains.


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[Assistant] You can see the tops of the mountains covered in white snow grow from the horizon.


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[Assistant] They slowly soar into the sky. They seem to grow endlessly. And you wonder how more massive can they get?


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[Assistant] Slowly moving. It seems like no life grows on these mountains after a certain altitude and you can see why. The air gets thin at the height of these amazing rock formations and the weather is harsh and inhospitable


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[Assistant] And you hear your GPS remind you that the turn is coming up.


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[Assistant] You feel a rise of relaxation in you because you are ready for a rest after a long road trip. This road is long and winding.


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[Assistant] You were surrounded by millions of trees, constantly producing oxygen.


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[Assistant] Your windows are still down and you can smell the dampness of the woods.


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[Assistant] Handling the curves with ease, this drive is so relaxing.


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[Assistant] You can see the sun rays cutting through the trees as you travel along.


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[Assistant] Happy that you have a watchful eye on the road ahead.


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[Assistant] You watch as this family does not fear you at all.


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[Assistant] There is a magnificent book with a long atlas atop his head.


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[Assistant] This fur is marked in a way that you know he must be one of the most beautiful of his kind.


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[Assistant] Raising a few things as they follow their parents.


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[Assistant] As if it is no different from the woods.


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[Assistant] And you quietly watch in a wall as they continue into the woods until you know you can no longer see them.


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[Assistant] You don't need GPS to remind you where to go at this point.


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[Assistant] You've come to the entrance of your private cabin, nestled in the woods. This place is miles away from any town, as well as any neighbours.


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[Assistant] The cabin is the perfect size and has all you need.


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[Assistant] There is some chopped wood waiting on the front porch, so you can start a fire quickly and easily. Not only for the warmth, but you really love the sound of a crackling fire.


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[Assistant] And to the side of the cabin you can see an old tree trunk and piles of wood and an axe ready for you to chop if you so desire. You get inside and you get the fire going after the fire is going. You have a seat on that nice couch


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[Assistant] Because the sunset is at its most beautiful.


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[Assistant] At this time, you walk out the front door to one of the most beautiful sights you've ever seen.


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[Assistant] Your cabin is situated in front of a crystal clear pond.


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[Assistant] And the view of the mountains in the distance is breathtaking.


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[Assistant] There is a very small dock built out into the water, just big enough for you to walk out on.


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[Assistant] Your feet make contact with the water, sending out the only ripples across the glass-like surface of the pond.


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[Assistant] And you watch as the miniature waves travel slowly out in all directions from where you are.


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[Assistant] You can see some prominent stars are out already.


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[Assistant] You hear the crickets, begin to chirp as the sun is chased away by the night sky. At first it is only a few crickets, but their numbers grow as it becomes darker.


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[Assistant] The yellows on the mountain from the sunlight has faded to greys and blues as the sun is setting.


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[Assistant] And you know, no matter how dark it gets, the snow on the mountains seem to always be visible to some degree.


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[Assistant] All the stars seem to come out and dance in the sky for you.


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[Assistant] As you focus on only the star, you can see that it is changing colours from white to red to blue to yellow to purple and back to white.


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[Assistant] All you know that it is flashing just for you. You feel so sleepy.


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[Assistant] You can already imagine how cosy the bed in the cabin is. So you head back across the short dock, hearing the balls of wood squeak below your feet.


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[Assistant] As you get to the front porch, you are greeted with the deepest sense of being home.


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[Assistant] You pull back the cosy handmade quilt and the white sheets to reveal the fluffiest pillows.


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[Assistant] The weight of the blanket wraps perfectly to your body, and the pillow cradles your head, just like a mother cradles their baby.


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[Assistant] And this deepens your relaxation even more. You feel comfortably and completely safe in this cabin.


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[Assistant] You can see it in your mind just as clearly because you've created a permanent image of this beautiful formation.


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[Assistant] The mountain represents your physical body, always strong and showing its beauty to others.


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[Assistant] Calm on the surface and highly intelligent in its depths.


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[Assistant] Now in the last lesson, we looked at various ways of finding and locating elements on a particular HTML page.


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[Assistant] Now in this lesson, we're going to put all of that to practice and you're going to get hold of all of these upcoming events. Now, because these events are time dependent, the events that you'll see will of course be different from what I've got here.


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[Assistant] But the idea is to get hold of all of these dates, so all five of these, and then get hold of all five of these names. And we're going to create a dictionary from these events. And by the end of the challenge, you should be able to print out a dictionary that's structured like this.


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[Assistant] It's going to contain five items starting from zero. So this is the first key. And then the first value is a dictionary with a key of time and a key of name.


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[Assistant] And then the values corresponds to of course, the first date.


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[Assistant] And the first name. So the first one we've got here is PyCon Japan 2020. And you can see down here,


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[Assistant] In this section, upcoming events, the first one is this item. So we're basically converting whatever is here in the upcoming events into this dictionary format.


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[Assistant] That is the goal and you're going to be needing everything that you've learned previously. In addition, it might be worth taking a look at the documentation for locating elements with Selenium. So I'll link to this page in the course resources as well.


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[Assistant] And once you're ready, get inspecting and see if you can complete this challenge and print out this dictionary. Pause the video now.


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[Assistant] Our goal is to get hold of this piece of data and this piece of data, but just the text.


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[Assistant] So we're going to have to first figure out how to locate these items. So if I go ahead and inspect on this date, you can see that it's inside a HTML element called time.


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[Assistant] Now in order to get hold of this element time, we can of course use an x path. But the problem is that this x path will be specific for this first item.


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[Assistant] Well, we actually probably want to use a find method that can find all of the dates and all of the event names. So we're going to be using one of these multiple element finds. So where it says find elements,


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[Assistant] Now, I think the easiest way here, at least for me, is to think about it in terms of CSS selectors.


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[Assistant] But we still haven't found anything that's unique to this particular structure here.


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[Assistant] Because if you take a look over here, when we look at the latest news, it's also a time inside an Li, inside a UL and none of this is unique until we get to this div where we have a blog widget while here,


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[Assistant] We've got a event widget. So there finally is a unique class name. So we're going to use this class name and then find the time element.


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[Assistant] Back in our code, let's go ahead and tap into our driver and then use the find elements by CSS selector, which is going to give us a list of elements that match this selector. And the selector is going to be first find


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[Assistant] Div with this particular class. So it has to have the class EventWidget. So we'll write .EventWidget. And then after a space, we specify the next thing we want to drill down to, which is a time element.


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[Assistant] So let's go ahead and just put the name of the HTML element like this and we'll get the event times as a list, hopefully. So let's go ahead and print this out, event times.


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[Assistant] And because this is actually going to be a Selenium object rather than the actual text, we'll need to use a for loop in order to actually see what it is. So for time in event times, let's go ahead and print each of the time dot.


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[Assistant] So once Alenium's done its thing, you can see it's now got hold of all five dates.


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[Assistant] Now, the next thing we need to do is to get hold of the event names.


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[Assistant] And we're going to use a similar method. So let's go ahead and inspect on the name and you can see that this is now a anchor tag.


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[Assistant] Now you might think that the solution will be just as simple as copying what we had before and replacing the time element with an anchor tag element. But you'll see as I write my for loop, for name in event names, print name.text,


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[Assistant] This does not actually get us what we want.


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[Assistant] Because it also gives us the first anchor tag in that div with class name event widget, which is this more link here. So if we don't want that more link, we're going to have to be a little bit more creative.


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[Assistant] This anchor tag is also inside an li while that more link is definitely not inside an li.


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[Assistant] So we can narrow down on our selector by saying, okay, so it's inside a element with class event widget, but then it's inside an li and then it's inside an anchor tag.


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[Assistant] Now that I've updated that CSS selector, you can see when I hit print, it gets us the actual names of all of the conferences.


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[Assistant] So the final thing to do is to actually create our events dictionary.


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[Assistant] So we're going to create a for loop and I'm going to use n. So I'm going to say for n in range and the range is going to be from zero to the length of event times. So it's basically going to be a range from zero to four.


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[Assistant] Once I've got that range, now I'm going to add to my events.


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[Assistant] The key of the event is the actual n, so the number.


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[Assistant] And then the value of the event is a dictionary with the key of time and also a key of name.


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[Assistant] Like this. Now the time is going to be from the event times and then getting hold of the item at index n and the name is going to be event names and the item at index n.


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[Assistant] Now the final thing we need to do is this gets hold of a Selenium object and we have to get hold of the actual text. So let's write .text and now we can print our events dictionary.


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[Assistant] And once that's done, you can see this is in the exact format that we wanted. We've got dictionary with five items. Each item has a dictionary in itself, time and name of the upcoming Python conferences. So did you manage to complete that challenge?


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[Assistant] If not, it might be worth either reviewing CSS selectors, which we went through in previous lessons,


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[Assistant] Or reviewing some of the lessons previously where we discussed how to locate and how to get hold of the text from elements using Selenium.


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[Assistant] Wow, sparkly stones. No, it's gold. That's what I call treasure.


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[Assistant] Oh, baby terrapins! They look like little turtles!


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[Assistant] Don't worry. The mist will lift soon. We'll be fine.


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[Assistant] Maybe a little longer than that. And you know what?


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[Assistant] Oh, that's a good one. My turn now. Hmm.


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[Assistant] I spy with my little eye something brown.


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[Assistant] Something... not brown?


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[Assistant] Well, we certainly had an adventure. But I think we better head home now, while we can see.


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[Assistant] A very patient man was that inspector in the cab, for it was a weary time before I rejoined him. His face clouded over when I showed him the empty box.


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[Assistant] There goes the reward, said he gloomily. Where there's no money there's no pay.


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[Assistant] Mr Thaddeus Sholto is a rich man, I said. He'll see that you're rewarded, treasure or no.


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[Assistant] His forecast proved to be correct, for the detective looked blank enough when I got to Baker Street and showed him the empty box. They had only just arrived, Holmes, the prisoner and he, for they had changed their plans so far as to report themselves at a station upon the way.


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[Assistant] My companion lounged in his armchair with his usual listless expression.


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[Assistant] While Small sat stolidly opposite to him with his wooden leg cocked over his sound one,


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[Assistant] As I exhibited the empty box, he leaned back in his chair and laughed aloud.


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[Assistant] This is your doing small, said Atholney Jones angrily.


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[Assistant] Yes, I've put it away where you shall never lay hand upon it," he cried exultantly. It is my treasure, and if I can't have the loot, I'll take darn good care that no one else does. I tell you that no living man has any right to it, unless it is three men who are in the Andaman convict barracks and myself.


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[Assistant] I know now that I cannot have the use of it, and I know that they cannot. I have acted all through for them as much as for myself. It's been the sign of four with us always. Well, I know now that they would have had me do just what I've done, and throw the treasure into the Thames, rather than let it go to kith or kin of Sholto or of Morstan. It was not to make them rich that we did for Ahmet.


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[Assistant] You'll find the treasure where the key is, and where little Tonga is.


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[Assistant] When I saw that your launch must catch us, I put the loot away in a safe place. There are no rupees for you this journey.


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[Assistant] "'You are deceiving us, small,' said Athelmy Jones sternly. "'If you had wished to throw the treasure into the Thames, it would have been easier for you to have thrown box and all.'


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[Assistant] Easier for me to throw, and easier for you to recover," he answered, with a shrewd side-long look.


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[Assistant] A man that was clever enough to want me down is clever enough to pick an iron box from the bottom of a river.


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[Assistant] Now that they are scattered over five miles or so, it may be a harder job.


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[Assistant] It went to my heart to do it, though. I was half mad when you came up with us.


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[Assistant] However, there's no good grieving over it. I've had ups in my life and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk.


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[Assistant] This is a very serious matter, small," said the detective. If you had helped justice instead of thwarting it in this way, you would have had a better chance at your trial.


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[Assistant] Justice!" snarled the ex-convict. A pretty justice! Whose loot is this, if it is not ours? Where is the justice that I should give it up to those who have never earned it? Look how I have earned it.


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[Assistant] Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with egg, bullied by every cursed black-faced policeman who loved to take it out of a white man. That was how I earned the agra treasure,


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[Assistant] And you talk to me of justice, because I cannot bear to feel that I have paid this price, only that another may enjoy it.


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[Assistant] I would rather swing a score a times, or have one of the Tonga's darts in my eye, than live in a convict cell, and feel that another man is at his ease in a palace with the money that should be mine." Small had dropped his mask of Stoicism.


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[Assistant] And all this came out in a wild whirl of words, while his eyes blazed and the handcuffs clanked together with the impassioned movement of his hands.


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[Assistant] I could understand, as I saw the fury and the passion of the man, that it was no groundless or unnatural terror which had possessed Major Sholto when he first learned that the injured convict was upon his track.


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[Assistant] You forget that we know nothing of all this, said Holmes quietly.


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[Assistant] We have not heard your story, and we cannot tell how far justice may originally have been on your side.


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[Assistant] Well sir, you've been very fair spoken to me, though I can see that I have you to thank, that I have these bracelets upon my wrists. Still, I bear no grudge for that. It is all fair and above board.


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[Assistant] If you want to hear my story I have no wish to hold it back.


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[Assistant] You can put the glass beside me here and I'll put my lips to it if I'm dry.


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[Assistant] I am a Worcestershire man myself, born near Perthshire.


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[Assistant] I dare say you would find a heap of smalls living there now if you were to look.


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[Assistant] I have often thought of taking a look round there, but the truth is that I was never much of a credit to the family, and I doubt if they would be so very glad to see me.


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[Assistant] They were all steady, chapel-going folk, small farmers, well known and respected over the countryside. Well, I was always a bit of a rover.


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[Assistant] At last, however, when I was about eighteen, I gave them no more trouble, for I got into a mess over a girl.


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[Assistant] I just got past a goose-step and learned to handle my musket when I was fool enough to go swimming in the Ganges.


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[Assistant] Luckily for me, my company sergeant, John Alder, was in the water at the same time, and he was one of the finest swimmers in the service.


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[Assistant] A crocodile took me, just as I was half way cross, and nipped off me right leg as clean as a surgeon would have done, just above the knee.


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[Assistant] What, with the shock and the loss of blood? I fainted. I should have drowned if Holder had not caught hold of me and paddled for the bank. I was five months in hospital over it.


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[Assistant] And when at last I was able to limp out of it with this timber toe strapped to my stump,


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[Assistant] I found myself invalided out of the army, and unfitted for any active occupation.


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[Assistant] I was, as you can imagine, pretty down on my luck at this time.


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[Assistant] For I was a useless cripple, so not yet in my twentieth year.


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[Assistant] However, my misfortune soon proving to be a blessing in disguise.


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[Assistant] A man named Ablewhite, who had come out there as an indigo planter, wanted an overseer to look after his coolies and keep them up to their work.


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[Assistant] He'd happened to be a friend of our Colonel's. We were taken to an interest in me since the accident.


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[Assistant] To make a long story short, the Colonel recommended me strongly for the post, and as the work was mostly to be done on horseback, my leg was no great obstacle, for I had enough knee left to keep good grip on the saddle.


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[Assistant] What I had to do was to ride over the plantation to keep an eye on the men as they worked and to report the idlers.


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[Assistant] Pay was fair, I had comfortable quarters, and altogether I was content to spend the remainder of my life in indigo planting.


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[Assistant] Mr Abelwhite was a kind man, and he would often drop into my little shanty and smoke a pint with me.


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[Assistant] White folk out there feel their arts warm to each other as they never do here at home.


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[Assistant] Well, I was never in luck's way long. Suddenly, without a note of warning, the great mutiny broke upon us.


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[Assistant] One month, India lay still and peaceful to all appearances of Surrey and Kent.


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[Assistant] The next, there were 200,000 black devils let loose, and the country was a perfect hell.


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[Assistant] Of course you know all about it, gentlemen. A deal more than I do very like, since reading is not in my line. I only know what I saw with my own eyes. Our plantation was at a place called Muttra, near the border of the north-west provinces.


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[Assistant] Night after night the whole sky was alight with the burning bungalows, and day after day we had small companies of Europeans passing through our estate with their wives and children on their way to Agra. Where were the nearest troops?


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[Assistant] Mr. Abelwhite was an obstinate man. He had it in his head that the affair had been exaggerated, and that it would blow over as suddenly as it had sprung up.


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[Assistant] There he sat on his veranda, drinking whisky pegs and smoking cheroots, while the country was in a blaze about him.


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[Assistant] Of course, we stuck by him, Ian Dawson, who with his wife used to do the book-work and the managing. Well, one fine day the crash came.


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[Assistant] I had been away on a distant plantation, and was riding slowly home in the evening, when my eye fell upon something all huddled together at the bottom of a steep knulla.


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[Assistant] I rode down to see what it was, and the cold struck through my heart when I found it was Dawson's wife, all cut into ribbons, and half eaten by jackals and native dogs.


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[Assistant] A little further up the road Dawson himself was lying on his face, quite dead, with an empty revolver in his hand and four sippoys lying across each other in front of him.


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[Assistant] I rained up my horse, wondering which way I should turn.


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[Assistant] But at that moment I saw thick smoke curling up from Abel White's bungalow, and the flames beginning to burst through the roof.


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[Assistant] I knew then that I could do my employer no good, but would only throw my own life away if I meddled in the matter.


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[Assistant] From where I stood I could see hundreds of the black fiends with their red coats still on their backs, dancing and howling round the burning house.


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[Assistant] Some of them pointed at me, and a couple of bullets sang past my head.


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[Assistant] So I broke away across the paddy fields and found myself late at night safe within the walls at Agra. As it proved, however, there was no great safety there either. The whole country was up like a swarm of bees.


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[Assistant] Wherever the English could collect in little bands, they held just the ground that their guns commanded. Everywhere else they were helpless fugitives.


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[Assistant] It was a fight of the millions against the hundreds, and the cruelest part of it was that these men that we fought against—foot, horse, and gunners—were our own picked troops, whom we had taught and trained, handling our own weapons and blowing our own bugle calls.


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[Assistant] At Agra there were the 3D Bengal Fusiliers, some Sikhs, two troops of horse, and a battery of artillery.


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[Assistant] A volunteer corps of clerks and merchants had been formed, and this I joined, wooden leg and all.


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[Assistant] We went out to meet the rebels at Shargunj early in July, and we beat them back for a time


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[Assistant] But our powder gave out, and we had to fall back upon the city.


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[Assistant] Nothing but the worst news came to us from every side, which is not to be wondered at.


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[Assistant] For if you look at the map, you will see that we were right in the heart of it. Look now is rather better than a hundred miles to the east, and Kanpour about as far to the south.


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[Assistant] For every point on the compass there was nothing but torture and murder and outrage.


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[Assistant] The city of Agra is a great place, swarming with fanatics and fierce devil-worshippers of all sorts.


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[Assistant] Our handful of men were lost among the narrow winding streets. Our leader moved across the river, therefore and took up his position in the old fort at Agra,


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[Assistant] I don't know if any of you gentlemen have ever read or heard anything of that old fort. It is a very queer place, the queerest that ever I was in, and I have been in some rum corners too. First of all, it is enormous in size. I should think that the enclosure must be acres and acres.


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[Assistant] There's a modern part, which took all our garrison, women, children, stores, and everything else, with plenty of room over.


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[Assistant] But the modern part is nothing like the size of the old quarter, where nobody goes and which is given over to the scorpions and the centipedes.


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[Assistant] It is all full of great deserted halls, and winding passages, and long corridors twisting in and out, so that it is easy enough for folk to get lost in it. For this reason it was seldom that any one went into it.


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[Assistant] Though now and again a party with torches might go exploring.


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[Assistant] The river washes along the front of the old fort, and so protects it.


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[Assistant] But on the sides and behind there are many doors, and these had to be guarded, of course, in the old quarter as well as in that which was actually held by our troops.


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[Assistant] We were short-handed, with hardly men enough to man the angles of the building, and to serve the guns.


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[Assistant] It was impossible for us, therefore, to station a strong guard at every one of the innumerable gates. What we did was to organize a central guard-house in the middle of the fort, and to leave each gate under the charge of one white man and two or three natives.


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[Assistant] I was selected to take charge during certain hours of the night of a small, isolated door upon the south-west side of the building. Two Sikh troopers were placed under my command.


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[Assistant] And I was instructed if anything went wrong to fire my musket.


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[Assistant] When I might rely upon help coming at once from the central guard.


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[Assistant] As the guard was a good two hundred paces away, however, and as the space between was cut up into a labyrinth of passages and corridors, I had great doubts as to whether they could arrive in time to be of any use in case of an actual attack.


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[Assistant] Well, I was pretty proud at having a small command given me, since I was a raw recruit, and a game-legged one at that. For two nights I kept the watch with my Punjabis.


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[Assistant] They were tall, fierce-looking chaps, Mohammed Singh and Abdullah Khan by name, both old fighting men, who had borne arms against us at Chilean Walla. They could talk English pretty well, but I could get a little out of them.


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[Assistant] They prefer to stand together and jabber all night in their queer seek lingo.


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[Assistant] For myself I used to stand outside the gateway looking down on the broad winding river and on the twinkling lights of the great city.


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[Assistant] The beating of the drums, the rattle of the tom-toms, and the yells and howls of the rebels, drunk with opium and with bang, were enough to remind us all night of our dangerous neighbours across the stream.


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[Assistant] Every two hours, the officer of the night used to come round to all the posts to make sure that all was well.


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[Assistant] The third night of my watch was dark and dirty, with a small driving rain.


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[Assistant] It was dreary work standing in the gateway, hour after hour in such weather.


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[Assistant] I tried again and again to make my six talk, but without much success.


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[Assistant] At two in the morning the rounds passed and broke for a moment the weariness of the night.


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[Assistant] Finding that my companions would not be led into conversation, I took out my pipe and laid down my musket to strike the match. In an instant the two Sikhs were upon me.


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[Assistant] One of them snatched my thighlock up and levelled it at my head, while the other held a great knife to my throat and swore between his teeth that he would plunge it into me if I moved a step.


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[Assistant] My first thought was that these fellows were in league with the rebels, and that this was the beginning of an assault.


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[Assistant] If our door were in the hands of the sepoys, the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Kanpur.


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[Assistant] Maybe you gentlemen think that I'm just making out a case for myself, but I give you my word that when I thought of that, though I felt the point of the knife at my throat.


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[Assistant] I opened my mouth with the intention of giving a scream, if it was my last one, which might alarm the main guard.


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[Assistant] The man who held me seemed to know my thoughts, for even as I braced myself to do it, he whispered, Don't make a noise. The fort is safe enough. There are no rebel dogs on this side of the river.


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[Assistant] There was the ring of truth in what he said, and I knew that if I raised my voice I was a dead man. I could read it in the fellow's brown eyes.


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[Assistant] I waited therefore in silence to see what it was that he wanted from me. Listen to me, Sabe.


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[Assistant] You must either be with us now, or you must be silenced forever. That thing is too great a one for us to hesitate.


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[Assistant] Either you are heart and soul with us on your oath on the cross of the Christians or your body this night shall be thrown into the ditch and we shall pass over to our brothers in the rebel army. There is no middle way.


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[Assistant] Which is it to be? Death or life? We can only give you three minutes to decide, for the time is passing, and all must be done before the rounds come again.


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[Assistant] How can I decide? said I. You have not told me what you want of me.


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[Assistant] But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort, I'll have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome."


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[Assistant] We only ask you to do that which your countrymen come to this land for. We ask you to be rich. If you will be one of us this night


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[Assistant] We will swear to you upon the naked knife and by the threefold oath, which no seek was ever known to break, that you shall have your fair share of the loot.


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[Assistant] A quarter of the treasure shall be yours. We can say no fairer.


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[Assistant] But what is the treasure, then?" I asked. I am as ready to be rich as you can be. If you will but show me how it can be done. You will swear then, said he.


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[Assistant] By the bones of your father, by the honor of your mother, by the cross of your faith, to raise no hand and speak no word against us, either now or afterwards.


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[Assistant] I will swear it, I answered, provided that the fort is not endangered.


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[Assistant] Then my comrade and I will swear that you shall have a quarter of the treasure, which shall be equally divided among the four of us. There are but three, said I. No, dost Akbar must have his share. We can tell the tale to you while we await them.


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[Assistant] Do you stand at the gate, Mohammed Singh, and give notice of their coming?


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[Assistant] The thing stands thus, Sahib, and I tell it to you because I know that an oath is binding upon a Ferengi, and that we may trust you.


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[Assistant] Had you been a lying Hindu, though you had sworn by all the gods in their false temples,


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[Assistant] Your blood would have been put upon the knife and your body in the water.


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[Assistant] But the Sikh knows the Englishman, and the Englishman knows the Sikh. How can then, do what I have to say?


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[Assistant] There is a raja in the northern provinces who has much wealth, though his lands are small.


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[Assistant] Much has come to him from his father, and more still he has set by himself.


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[Assistant] Gori is of a low nature, and hoards his gold rather than spend it.


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[Assistant] When the troubles broke out, you would be friends both with the lion and the tiger, with the sepoi and with the company's Raj.


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[Assistant] Soon, however, it seemed to him that the white man's day was come.


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[Assistant] He made such plans that come what may, half at least of his treasure should be left to him.


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[Assistant] That which was in gold and silver he kept by him in the vaults of his palace.


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[Assistant] But the most precious stones and the choicest pearls that he had he put in an iron box, and sent it by a trusty servant who, under the guise of a merchant, should take it to the fort at Agra, there to lie until the land is at peace.


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[Assistant] Thus, if the rebels won, he would have his money.


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[Assistant] But if the company conquered, his jewels would be saved to him.


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[Assistant] Having thus divided his horde, he threw himself into the cause of the sepoys, since they were strong upon his borders.


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[Assistant] By doing this, mark you Saib. His property becomes the due of those who have been true to their salt.


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[Assistant] This pretended merchant who travels under the name of Ahmed is now in the city of Agra and desires to gain his way into the fort.


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[Assistant] He has with him as traveling companion my foster brother Dost Akbar, who knows his secret.


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[Assistant] Dost Akbar has promised this knight to lead him to a side poston of the fort, and has chosen this one for his purpose. Here he will come presently.


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[Assistant] And here you will find Mohammed Singh and myself awaiting him. The place is lonely and none shall know of his coming. The world shall know of the merchant Ahmed no more.


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[Assistant] But the great treasure of the Raja shall be divided among us. What say you to it, Sahib?


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[Assistant] In Worcestershire the life of a man seems a great and a sacred thing.


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[Assistant] But it is very different when there is fire and blood all round you, and you've been used to meeting death at every turn.


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[Assistant] Whether Ahmed the merchant lived or died was a thing as light as air to me.


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[Assistant] But at the talk about the treasure, my heart turned to it, and I thought of what I might do in the old country with it.


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[Assistant] And now my folk would stare when they saw their ne'er-do-well coming back with his pockets full of gold moidors. I had therefore already made up my mind. Abdullah Khan, however, thinking I hesitated, pressed the matter more closely.


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[Assistant] Now, since we do the taking of him, why should we not do the rest as well?


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[Assistant] The jewels will be as well with us as in the company's coffers.


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[Assistant] There will be enough to make every one of us rich men and great chiefs. No one can know about the matter, for here we are, cut off from all men. What could be better for the purpose?


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[Assistant] Say again, Nsaib, whether you are with us, or if we must look upon you as an enemy. I am with you heart and soul, said I.


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[Assistant] It is well," he answered, handing me back my fire-lock.


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[Assistant] You see that we trust you, for your word, like ours, is not to be broken. We have now only to wait for my brother and the merchant.


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[Assistant] Does your brother know then of what you will do? I asked. The plan is this. He has devised it.


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[Assistant] We will go to the gate and share the watch with Mohamed Singh.


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[Assistant] The rain was still falling steadily, for it was just the beginning of the wet season. Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stone cast. A deep moat lay in front of our door, but the water was in places nearly dried up, and it could easily be crossed.


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[Assistant] It was strange to me to be standing there with these two wild Punjabis waiting for the man who was coming to his death.


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[Assistant] Suddenly my eye caught the glint of a shaded lantern at the other side of the moat.


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[Assistant] It vanished among the mound-heaps, and then appeared again, coming slowly in our direction.


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[Assistant] You will challenge him, Saib. As usual, whispered Abdullah.


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[Assistant] Give him no cause for fear. Send us in with him, and we shall do the rest while you stay here on guard.


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[Assistant] Have the lantern ready to uncover, that we may be sure that it is indeed the man.


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[Assistant] The light had flickered onwards, now stopping and now advancing, until I could see two dark figures upon the other side of the moat.


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[Assistant] I uncovered my lantern and threw a flood of light upon them.


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[Assistant] The first was an enormous seek, with a black beard which swept nearly down to his scumberbund. Outside of a show I had never seen so tall a man.


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[Assistant] The other was a little fat roundfella with a great yellow turban and a bundle in his hand done up in a shawl.


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[Assistant] He seemed to be all in a quiver with fear, for his hands twitched as if he had the egg, and his head kept turning to the left and right with two bright little twinkling eyes like a mouse when he ventures out from his hole. Gave me the chills to think of killing him, but I thought of the treasure, and my heart set as hard as a flint within me.


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[Assistant] Your protection for the unhappy merchant, Ahmed. I have travelled across Rajputana that I might seek the shelter of the fort at Agra. I have been robbed and beaten and abused because I have been a friend of the company.


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[Assistant] The two sakes closed in upon him on each side, and the giant walked behind while they marched in through the dark gateway.


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[Assistant] Never was a man so compassed round with death. I remained at the gateway with a lantern.


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[Assistant] I could hear the measured tramp of the footsteps sounding through the lonely corridors. Suddenly it ceased.


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[Assistant] And I heard voices and a scuffle with the sound of blows.


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[Assistant] A moment later there came to my horror a rush of footsteps coming in my direction with the loud breathing of a running man.


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[Assistant] I turned my lantern down the long straight passage, and there was the fat man, running like the wind with a smear of blood across his face, and close at his heels, bounding like a tiger, the great black-bearded Sikh, with a knife flashing in his hand.


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[Assistant] I've never seen a man run so fast as that little merchant.


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[Assistant] He was gaining on the seek, and I could see that if he once passed me and got to the open air he would save himself yet. My heart softened to him. Again the thought of his treasure turned me hard and bitter.


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[Assistant] I cast my firelock between his legs as he raced past, and he rolled twice over like a shot rabbit.


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[Assistant] Here he could stagger to his feet, the seek was upon him, and buried his knife twice in his side.


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[Assistant] The man never uttered moan nor moved muscle, but lay where he had fallen. I think myself that he may have broken his neck with the fall. You see, gentlemen, that I am keeping my promise.


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[Assistant] I am telling you every work of the business just exactly as it happened, whether it is in my favour or not.


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[Assistant] He stopped and held out his manacled hands for the whiskey and water which Holmes had brewed for him.


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[Assistant] For myself I confess that I had now conceived the utmost horror of the man, not only for this cold-blooded business in which he had been concerned.


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[Assistant] But even more for the somewhat flippant and careless way in which he narrated it.


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[Assistant] Whatever punishment was in store for him I felt that he might expect no sympathy from me.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes and Jones sat with their hands upon their knees, deeply interested in the story, but with the same disgust written upon their faces.


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[Assistant] He may have observed it, for there was a touch of defiance in his voice and manner as he proceeded.


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[Assistant] It was all very bad, no doubt," said he. I should like to know how many fellows in my shoes would have refused a share of this loot when they knew that they would have their throats cut for their pains.


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[Assistant] Besides, it was my life or his when once he was in the fort?


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[Assistant] If he had got out the whole business would come to light, and I should have been court-martialed and shot as likely as not, for people were not very lenient at a time like that."


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[Assistant] Well, we carried him in, Abdullah Akbar and I. A fine weight he was, too, for all that he was so short.


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[Assistant] Mahomet Singh was left to guard the door. We took him to a place which Sikhs had already prepared.


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[Assistant] It was some distance off where a winding passage leads to a great empty hall, the brick walls of which were all crumbling to pieces.


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[Assistant] The earth floor had sunk in at one place, making a natural grave, so we left Ahmet the merchant there, having first covered him over with loose bricks. This done, we all went back to the treasure. It lay where he had dropped it when he was first attacked. The box was the same which now lies upon the table.


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[Assistant] A key was hung by a silken cord to that carved handle upon the top.


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[Assistant] We opened it, and the light of the lantern gleamed upon a collection of gems such as I have read of and thought about when I was little lad at Purshaw. It was blinding to look upon them.


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[Assistant] When we had feasted our eyes we took them all out and made a list of them.


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[Assistant] There were one hundred and forty-three diamonds of the first water, including one which was called, I believe, the Great Mogul, and is said to be the second largest stone in existence. Then there were ninety-seven very fine emeralds, and one hundred and seventy rubies, some of which, however, were small.


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[Assistant] There were forty carbuncles, two hundred and ten sapphires, sixty-one agates, and a great quantity of barrels, onyxes, cat's-eyes, turquoises, and other stones—the very names of which I did not know at the time, though I have become more familiar with them since.


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[Assistant] Besides this, there were nearly three hundred very fine pearls, twelve of which were set in a gold coronet.


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[Assistant] By the way, these last have been taken out of the chest, and were not there when I recovered it.


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[Assistant] After we had counted our treasure we put them back into the chest and carried them to the gateway to show them to Marmot Sing.


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[Assistant] And we solemnly renewed our oath to stand by each other and be true to our secret.


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[Assistant] We agreed to conceal our loot in a safe place until the country should be at peace again, and then to divide it equally among ourselves.


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[Assistant] There was no use dividing it at present, for if gems of such value were found upon us it would cause suspicion, and there was no privacy in the fort nor any place where we could keep them.


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[Assistant] We carried the box, therefore, into the same hall where we buried the body.


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[Assistant] And there, under the certain bricks in the best-preserved wall, we made a hollow and put our treasure.


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[Assistant] We made careful note of the place, and next day I drew four plans, one for each of us.


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[Assistant] And put the sign of the four of us at the bottom, for we had sworn that we should each always act for all, so that none might take advantage.


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[Assistant] That is an oath, that I can put my hand to my heart, and swear that I have never broken.


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[Assistant] Well, there's no use my telling you gentlemen what came of the Indian mutiny.


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[Assistant] After Wilson took deli, and Sir Colin relieved look now, the back of the business was broken.


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[Assistant] Fresh troops came pouring in, and Nana Sahib made himself scarce over the frontier.