I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood … It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry — dignified, solid, and reassuring.
– The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
A drawing from a 1921 edition of "Baskervilles"
