Excerpt from Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events, Vol. 1 A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information con cerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children. A friend, when he heard that I was col leeting such material, exclaimed, What are you about? Every other Yorkshireman is a character! Such is the case. No other county produces so much originality - and that originality, when carried to excess, is eccentricity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.