The Adventure of the Speckled Band the snake wrong, a theory that the swamp adder was an artificial hybrid between the Mexican Gila monster ("Heloderma suspectum") and "Naja naja". His speculation suggests that Doyle might have hidden a double-meaning in Holmes' words. What Holmes said, reported by Watson, was "It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India"; but Klauber suggested what Holmes really said was "It is a "samp-aderm", the deadliest skink in India." "Samp-aderm" can be translated "snake-Gila-monster": "Samp" is Hindi for snake, and the suffix "aderm" is derived from "heloderm", the common or vernacular name of the Gila monster generally used by
The Fat of the Land (short story) the land", which means the best of what is available, "fat" meaning the best or richest part of something. While Wodehouse's stories are generally set in a timeless world, this story makes a rare reference to explicit years; it is stated in this story that one of Oofy Prosser's uncles, Hildebrand, died of an apopletic stroke in 1947, and his other uncle, Stanley, died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1949. The Drones Club Fat Uncles sweepstakes introduced in this story is also central to the 1965 short story "Stylish Stouts". "The Fat of the Land" was first published in