Adventure of the Dancing Men

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In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Adventure of the Dancing Men", Sherlock Holmes has the pleasure of solving a mono alphabetic substitution cipher in which the cipher text symbols were stick figures of a human in various dancelike poses.

Figure 1: "Dancing Men" - Every dancelike pose represents a letter used in the English language.

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