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go the countryside with Henry to keep an eye on him. Watson notices strange things
going on in the mansion. Henry falls in love with Beryl, his hot-looking neighbor, but her
brother, Jack, gets mad.
Watson gathers clues and writes reports to Holmes, who is supposed to be in London.
But Watson discovers that Holmes has been secretly hanging around, checking things
out. Holmes is pretty sure the killer is Jack who used the legend of the ghostly, killer dog
to scare Charles to death. Holmes is sure Jack has something up his sleeve to do away
with Henry.
It turns out, Jack is really Henry's uncle, though he keeps his mouth shut about it, so no
one will know he is out to get the Baskerville money and mansion. And Beryl is really his
wife. Jack used a real-live dog dabbed with glow-in-the-dark paint to scare Charles to
death. Jack was the bearded man trailing Henry through London. He stole Henry's shoe
to give the dog his scent. Jack also locked Beryl in her hotel room, but she figured out a
way to send Henry a warning to stay away from the mansion.
Finally, Jack lures Henry to his house at night, and when Henry is walking home, Jack
sicks his mad-dog after him. Holmes shoots the dog in the nick of time and chases Jack
into a swampy maze of quicksand, where Jack falls and sinks to his death.
ACTIVITY (Art & Imagination – Integrated )
Draw a sketch of a Hound and write some points on it after reading the story.
VOCABULARY: WORDS IN FOCUS(To be written in the Eng CW Notebook)
1) eerie- strange and frightening
2) growling- making a low guttural sound in the throat
3) clutching- grasp something tightly
4) manuscript- a book, document written by hand rather than printed
5) hounds- dog
6) ripping- splendid, excellent
7) albeit- although
8) ominous- suggesting that something bad is going to happen
9) reluctantly- in an unwilling and hesitant way
10) entrusted- assigned
11) setter- a large dog with long hair
12) commotion-
13) sinister- dangerous
