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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Watson suggests that Holmes encounters strange affairs only because difficult cases reach him from three continents. To test the idea, Watson picks up the morning newspaper from the floor. The first headline concerns a husband’s cruelty to his wife, and Watson confidently claims that he can predict the entire story without reading another word.

I smiled and shook my head.私は笑って首を振った。
"I can quite understand your thinking so," I said.「きみがそう考えるのは、よく分かるよ」と言った。
"Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is strange and bizarre.「もちろん、三つの大陸にわたって、どうにも途方に暮れた人なら誰でも助言と手助けを求められる、非公式の相談役という立場にいれば、奇妙で風変わりなことすべてに接することになる。
But here"—I picked up the morning paper from the ground—"let us put it to a practical test.でも、ほら」私は床から朝刊を拾い上げた。「実際に試してみよう。
Here is the first heading upon which I come.最初に目についた見出しがこれだ。
'A husband's cruelty to his wife.'『夫の妻に対する残酷な仕打ち』。
There is half a column of print, but I know without reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me.半段ほどの記事があるが、読まなくても、何もかもおなじみの話だと分かる。
There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady.もちろん、ほかの女がいて、酒があり、突き飛ばし、殴り、あざができて、同情する姉妹か下宿の女主人が出てくる。
The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude."最も未熟な作家でも、これ以上単純な話は思いつけないだろう」