THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I regret to say my moorland friends were very obstinate, very quarrelsome, and very irreconcilable in their quarrels.  Hill men from the earliest times in all countries have been more quarrelsome and pugnacious than their lowland brothers.  They are much more remote from the influence of civilisation, are stronger and hardier, and more primitive in their instincts.

Bishop/Patients

There were men I had a personal acquaintance with soon after I came into residence, who were the last of an expiring class; men whose pastime it had been, if not whose object and desire, to provoke a row or a scuffle, and to fight it out then and there.  One of these persons, a stout-built muscular man, even in his old age – he must have been turned of seventy – was described to me a literally the “hero of a hundred fights.”

Atkinson/Parish