Around that cottage, and the adjacent lands and waters, Irving's genius has cast an atmosphere of romance, f The old Dutch house -- one of the oldest in all that region -- out of whuJh grew that quaint cottage, was a part of the veritable "Wolfert's Roost -- the very dwelling wherein occurred Katrina Yan Tassel's memorable quilting frolic, that terminated so disastrously to Ichabod Crane, in his midnight race with the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. There, too, the veracious Dutch historian, Diedrich Knickerbocker, domiciled while he was deciphering the precious documents found there, " which, like the lost books of Livy, had baffled the research of former historians. "J But its appearance had sadly changed when it was purchased by Mr. Trving, about thirty years ago, and was by him restored to the original form of the Eoost, which he describes as " a little, old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat. It is said, in fact," continues Mr. Irving, "to have been modelled after the cocked hat of Peter the Headstrong, as the Escurial was mo'delled after the gridiron of

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the blessed St. Lawrence." n:t was built, the chronicler tells us, by Wolfert Acker, a privy councillor of Peter Stuyvesant, "a worthy, but ill-starred man, whose aim through life had been to live in peace and quiet." He sadly failed. "It was his doom, in fact, to meet a head wind at every turn, and be kept in a constant fume and fret by the perverseness of mankind. Had he served on a modern jury, he would have been sure to have eleven unreasonable men opposed to him." He retired in disijust to this then wilderness, built the gabled house, and