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Identifier: legendofsleepyho03irvi (find matches)
Title: The legend of Sleepy Hollow; designed and hand colored
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
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Publisher: New York, Dodge publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sthis enchanted region, and seems to be com-mander-in-chief of all the powers of the airis the apparition of a figure on horsebackwithout a head. It is said by some to be theghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head hadbeen carried away by a cannon-ball, in somenameless battle during the RevolutionaryWar, and who is ever and anon seen by thecoimtry folk, hurrying along in the gloom ofnight, as if on the wings of the wind. Hishaunts are not confined to the valley, butextend at times to the adjacent roads, andespecially to the vicinity of a church at nogreat distance. Indeed, certain of the mostauthentic historians of those parts, who havebeen careful in collecting and collating thefloating facts concerning this spectre, allege,that the body of the trooper having beenburied in the churchyard, the ghost rides forthto the scene of battle in nightly quest of hishead, and that the rushing speed with whichhe sometimes passes along the hollow, like amidnight blast, is owing to his being belated,
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mention this peaceful spotwith all laud; for it is insuch little retired Dutch valleys,found here and there embosomedin the great State of New York,that population, manners, and cus-toms remain fixed, while the greattorrent of migration and improve-ment, which is making such in-cessant changes in other parts ofthis restless country, sweeps bythem unobserved. ©^5p<» The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 5 and in a hurry to get back to the churchyardbefore daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendarysuperstition, which has furnished materialsfor many a wild story in that region of shad-ows; and the spectre is known at all the coun-try firesides, by the name of The HeadlessHorseman of Sleepy Hollow. It is remarkable that the visionary pro-pensity I have mentioned is not confined tothe native inhabitants of the valley, but isunconsciously imbibed by every one whoresides there for a time. However wideawake they may have been before theyentered that sleepy region, they are sure, in al

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