Ian Maclaren

But within that lecture, which these things were then the newspapers would pick up on these and they would report what somebody had said in the thing so it went into the newspapers and therefore it's disseminated down to London where of course all the real people who know anything about literature and culture reside yes and so it could just be coincidence but in the same month that Crockett's article on Scottish national humour was published, that same month there was the article that first named Cale Yard.

Now in the autumn of 1894 also, one of the best-selling books was by Ian McLaren, who was actually called John Watson.

He was a Scot who was living in Liverpool, who wrote this Beyond the Bonnie Briarbush.

That was his book.

And it's kind of like, oh, look, they're a minister who's obviously, rather than going, author, he kind of did a bit of ministry.

Well, you see, I mean,

Ian McLaren was a minister who then became an author.

So if that was going to be your paradigm for Cale Yard, then I guess he could be your paradigm.

"What on earth is the meaning of this?" I cried in horror.

"It means, madam," replied the famous author calmly, "that I never fake.

All my situations, all my passages descriptive of human emotions and sufferings are drawn from life and not from the imagination."

"You work from living models," I gasped.

"You wouldn't," I began.

Oh, yes, I would

Replied the author pleasantly.

Would you like to see the cell?