The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea

SLEEPY HOLLOW BEIDGE,

Crane, a Connecticut schoolmaster, instructed "tough, wrong-headed,

* " Over a deep, black part of the stream, not far from the church," says Mr. Ir\-iiig, in his " Legend of Sleepy Hollow," " was formerly tlirown a wooden bridge ; the road that led to it, and the biidge itself, were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it even in the daytime, but occasioned a fearful darkness at night."

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broad-skirted, Dutch urchins" in the rudiments of learning. He was also the singing-master of the neighbourhood. Not far off lived old Baltus Van Tassel, a well-to-do farmer, whose house was called WolferVs Roost. He had a blooming and only daughter named Katrina, and Ichabod was her tutor in psalmody, training her voice to mingle sweetly with those of the choir which he led at Sabbath-day worship in the Sleepy Hollow Church. Ichabod '' had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex." He fell in love with Katrina. He found a rival in his suit in stalwart, bony Brom Van Brunt, commonly known as Brom Bones. Jealousies arose, and the J)utchman resolved to drive the Yankee schoolmaster from the country. J

r Strange stories of ghosts in Sleepy Hollow were believed by all, and by none more implicitly than Ichabod. The chief goblin seen there was that of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball. This spectre was known all over the country as " The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow."