. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . lled Wolferts Roost. He had a bloom-ing and only daughter named Katrina, and Ichabod was hertutor in psalmody, training her voice to mingle sweetlywith those of the choir which he led at Sabbath-day wor-ship in the Sleepy Hollow Church. Ichabod had a softand foolish heart towards the sex. He fell in love withKatrina. He found a rival in his suit in stalwart, bonyBrom Van Brunt, commonly known as Brom Bones. Jeal-ousies arose, and the Dutchman resolved to drive theYankee schoolmaster from the country. Strange stories of
. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . lled Wolferts Roost. He had a bloom-ing and only daughter named Katrina, and Ichabod was hertutor in psalmody, training her voice to mingle sweetlywith those of the choir which he led at Sabbath-day wor-ship in the Sleepy Hollow Church. Ichabod had a softand foolish heart towards the sex. He fell in love withKatrina. He found a rival in his suit in stalwart, bonyBrom Van Brunt, commonly known as Brom Bones. Jeal-ousies arose, and the Dutchman resolved to drive theYankee schoolmaster from the country. Strange stories of ghosts in Sleepy Hollow were believedby all, and by none more implicitly than Ichabod. Thechief goblin seen there was that of a Hessian trooper, 1 Over a deep, black part of the stream, not far from the church, saysMr. Irving, in his Legend of Sleepy Hollow, was formerly thrown awooden bridge; the road that led to it and the bridge itself were thicklyshaded by overhanging trees which cast a gloom about it even in the day-time, but occasioned a fearful darkness at SUNNYSIDE, TARRYTOWN 251 whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball. Thisspectre was known all over the country as The HeadlessHorseman of Sleepy Hollow. About three miles below Tarrytown is Sunnyside^ theresidence of Washington Irving. It is reached from thepublic road by a winding carriage-way that passes herethrough rich pastures and pleasant woodlands and thenalong the margin of a dell through which runs a pleasantbrook, reminding one of the merry laughter of children asit dances away riverward and leaps in beautiful cascadesand rapids into a little bay a few yards from the cottage ofSunnyside. Around that cottage and the adjacent lands and waters,Irvings genius has cast an atmosphere of romance. Theold Dutch house—one of the oldest in all that region—outof which grew that quaint cottage, was a part of the veri-table Wolferts Roost—the very dwelling wherein occurredKatrina Van Tassels memorable
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