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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Yes good point. Before I read any of these books I had always got that impression, that he was a side kick or scribe. But, now that I have read this stuff (still reading AOSH and more) I find that Watson is intelligent and thoughtful.
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Yet, in the first chapter, Holmes ridicules Watson's bumbling attempts to deduce anything from a walking stick.
"When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth."