[Gutenberg 47386] • Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events
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- Authors
- Baring-Gould, S.
- Tags
- legends -- england -- yorkshire , history , classics , yorkshire (england) -- miscellanea
- Date
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.37 MB
- Lang
- en
A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning 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 collecting 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.