Colonel Crane wears a cabbage for a hat, a lawyer sets the Thames on fire, and pigs really do fly. In each tale an Englishman makes a proverbial impossibility literally true, until together the eccentrics form the League of the Long Bow and issue an ultimatum to the modern state.
Chesterton’s paradoxes at full stretch, mixing comedy with his politics of small property and country life. Download the free EPUB.