A rabbit, John!

• Basil is consciously copying Sherlock Holmes
• Basil and Dawson get tired of trekking to spy on Sherlock Holmes in the snow, so they construct an entire town in the cellar of 221B and move in along with no fewer than 44 families
• The town is called Holmestead, and it has shops, a school, a library, and a town hall
• Basil and Dawson live together with their mousekeeper, Mrs. Judson
• Basil has a tailor copy Sherlock Holmes’s entire wardrobe so he can dress like Holmes
• Basil tried to make a mouse-sized violin, but it sounded so bad that Dawson made him stop and he stuck to playing the flute. He uses the flute to charm snakes
• Basil keeps a collection of Holmes souvenirs, including “scraps of paper his hero had written upon, old pen points he had used, a torn blotter, a broken pocket lens, a whittling of Holmes done by Basil himself, and other odds and ends.”
• Basil practices his archery indoors
• Basil has a mouse-sized microscope
• Basil dresses up as a sailor by the name of Captain Baker, and Dawson disguises himself as his first mate, Mr. Street. They practice talking like sailors together
• Instead of Scotland Yard, they have Mouseland Yard
• Dr. Dawson heals the niece of the Loch Ness Monster, who was suffering from a cold.
• Basil leads an expedition up Mt. Emmentaler, past the Bachenreich Falls, and discovered the Adorable Snowmouse
• Professor Ratigan is a mouse, not a rat. Ratigan has a Moran, whose name is Doran
• Basil solves the theft of the Mousa Lisa
• Basil visits a remote island, uncovers artifacts, and takes them back to the British Mousemopolitan Museum
• There is a mouse Irene Adler. Her name is Mademoiselle Relda, and she disguises herself in drag to adventure with Basil when he says women can’t climb mountains
• Basil discovered penicillin and communicated this to Alexander Fleming
• Basil is an amateur archaeologist
• Basil and Dawson are both strongly pro-women’s suffrage, but Basil is generally sexist and Dawson is more progressive
• Dawson thinks that Holmes knew Basil was listening to him, and “that it pleased him to pass his methods on to a mouse.”

The Edinburgh of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)

Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest. Nothing has more individuality, save perhaps watches and bootlaces. —The Yellow Face