The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Reeks: Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC
Washington Irving
- In
- a
- secluded
- glen
- called
- Sleepy
- Hollow,
- Ichabod
- Crane,
- an
- extremely
- superstitious
- schoolmaster
- from
- Connecticut,
- competes
- with
- Abraham
- Van
- Brunt
- for
- the
- hand
- of
- 18-year-old
- Katrina
- Van
- Tassel.
- As
- Crane
- leaves
- a
- party
- he
- attended
- at
- the
- Van
- Tassel
- home
- on
- an
- autumn
- night,
- he
- is
- pursued
- by
- the
- Headless
- Horseman.
- The
- Headless
- Horseman,
- is
- said
- to
- be
- the
- ghost
- of
- a
- Hessian
- trooper
- who
- had
- his
- head
- shot
- off
- by
- a
- stray
- cannonball,
- and
- "rides
- forth
- to
- the
- scene
- of
- battle
- in
- nightly
- quest
- of
- his
- head,"
- though
- the
- story
- implies
- that
- the
- Horseman
- was
- really
- Brom
- in disguise.
