A gentleman travelling home from London by train reached his destination carrying more than he set out with.

Sir Nicholas L’Estrange recalls two astonishing eyewitness accounts of the resourcefulness the fox.

When William Shakespeare agreed to be godfather to Ben Jonson’s baby boy, he forgot that he would have to think of a gift for his christening.

Charles Villiers Stanford found it necessary to play dumb on a visit to snowy Leipzig.

A sportsman and an officer lays a wager that he can make a trigger-happy Irishman go barefoot in public.

A doctor is wondering how to apologise for being drunk on the job, when he receives a letter from his patient.