Jabez Wilson

1. One day in the fall, Mr. Jabez Wilson, a gentleman with a head of fiery red hair, came to visit Sherlock Holmes and told Mr. Holmes a very bizarre story: because of his fiery red hair, a group called the Red Headed Leauge offered him an easy job which was to spend four hours each day in an office copying by hand the Encyclopaedia Britannica with a weekly salary of one pound.
在某个秋天的一天，一个头发火红、名叫杰贝兹·威尔逊的老先生拜访了歇洛克·福尔摩斯先生他告诉福尔摩斯先生一件奇怪的事：有个名叫红发会的组织，因为他火红的发色给他一个美差——每天用4个小时在一个固定的办公室抄写《大英百科全书》，薪金是每周四英镑。