The other thing that made Arthur happy was his knack for storytelling, which kept him, as well as other students happy that, were listening to him. Doyle hated Book history because it was dull and only about places not adventures like he was into. When Arthur left the Jesuit boarding school he went to Stonyhurst where there as well he received corporal punishment and just as harsh if not harsher. Arthur was very stubborn and to prove that those above him did not intimidate him he would get in some of the worst trouble just to receive some sort of horrible punishment. Arthur had very poor handwriting and whenever he would write home to his mother he would always have so lame excuse for it like "I feel of the roof of the Gym and landed on it." He did make some good friends at Stonyhurst, which made him laugh, I don"t the names of any of his friends because none of my sources had them. While attending his last year at Stonyhurst he started to show some talent in his story writing abilities, it was shocking to everyone to see that he had any talents at all. When it came time for the finals Arthur took them with his fellow classmates. Following the test everyone waited vigorously outside the office to see his or her results. "Pulling open the door of the playroom, regardless of the howls of the perfects, we dashed along the gallery, up the stairs, and along the corridor to the Rector"s room. There were between forty and fifty if us; not all candidates, but many whose brothers or relations had gone up. There we crowded around the door all pushing and yelling. The door opened and the Rector was seen inside, waving the packet over his head." (TLSACD16-17) Because of his grades Arthur took honours at school.

             Arthur received an offer to attend school at Feldkirch in western Austria, which he accepted the second the offer was laid down. "The town of Feldkirch lay in a green valley, watered by the river Ill, among cloudy mountains dark with fir-trees.