~I right!' I said. 'What can you see in this hat?'
'The owner of this hat is an intelligent man.' said
Holmes. 'He was once rich and is now poor. His wife
loved him once but she doesn't love him now. And he's
thirty or forty years old.
'Well, perhaps I'm slow. Holmes, but I don't
understand.' I said. 'Why is he an intelligent man, do you
think?'
Holmes put the hat on his head. It came down to his
nose. 'This is a big hat. A man with a big hat has a big
head, and a man with a big head has a big brain. A man
with a big brain thinks a lot.'
'But you say he was once rich and is now poor. Why?'
'The hat is three years old. I remember these hats were
in all the shops then. They were very expensive too.
'Three years ago this man bought a good hat, so he
was rich then. But he has no money to buy a new hat