This hilarious book tells of such truly idiosyncratic figures as Hugh Lonsdale, "the Yellow Earl" and founder of the Lonsdale Belt, who walked across Canada one winter, Sir William Stewart who returned to his Scottish estates with a herd of buffalo and forty Red Indians, and Squire "Mad Jack Mytton" who exclaiming "Damn this hiccup! I'll frighten it away!" set fire to his nightshirt.