The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . in mind the golden maxim,Spare the rod and spoil the child. — Ichabod Cranesscholars certainly were not spoiled. 10. I would not have it imagined, however, that he wasone of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in thesmart of their subjects; on the contrary, he adminstered jus-tice with discrimination rather than severity, taking the bur-den off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of thestrong. Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . in mind the golden maxim,Spare the rod and spoil the child. — Ichabod Cranesscholars certainly were not spoiled. 10. I would not have it imagined, however, that he wasone of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in thesmart of their subjects; on the contrary, he adminstered jus-tice with discrimination rather than severity, taking the bur-den off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of thestrong. Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the leastflourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 301 claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portionon some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutchurchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullenbeneath the birch. All this he called doing his duty bytheir parents; and he never inflicted a chastisement withoutfollowing it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smartingurchin, that he would remember it, and thank him for itthe longest day he had to The Sleepy Hollow SchoolFrom the engraving by Charles O. Murray 11. When school-hours were over, he was even the com-panion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday after-noons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who hap-pened to have pretty sisters, or good housewives for mothers,noted for the comforts of the cupboard. Indeed it behoovedhim to keep on good terms with his pupils. The revenue aris-ing from his school was small, and would have been scarcelysufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a hugefeeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an ana-conda; but to help out his maintenance, he was, accordingto country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the 302 THE SKETCH-BOOK houses of the farmers, whose children he instructed. Withthese he hved successively a week at a time; thus going therounds of th
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