The legend of Sleepy Hollow; designed and hand colored . in that region of shad-ows; and the spectre is known at all the coun-try firesides, by the name of The HeadlessHorseman of Sleepy Hollow. It is remarkable that the visionary pro-pensity I have mentioned is not confined tothe native inhabitants of the valley, but isunconsciously imbibed by every one whoresides there for a time. However wideawake they may have been before theyentered that sleepy region, they are sure, in alittle time, to inhale the witching influence ofthe air, and begin to grow imaginative—todream dreams, and see appariti
The legend of Sleepy Hollow; designed and hand colored . in that region of shad-ows; and the spectre is known at all the coun-try firesides, by the name of The HeadlessHorseman of Sleepy Hollow. It is remarkable that the visionary pro-pensity I have mentioned is not confined tothe native inhabitants of the valley, but isunconsciously imbibed by every one whoresides there for a time. However wideawake they may have been before theyentered that sleepy region, they are sure, in alittle time, to inhale the witching influence ofthe air, and begin to grow imaginative—todream dreams, and see apparitions. I mention this peaceful spot with all laud;for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys,found here and there embosomed in the greatState of New York, that population, manners,and customs remain fixed, while the greattorrent of migration and improvement, whichis making such incessant changes in otherparts of this restless country, sweeps by themunobserved. They are like those little nooksof still water, which border a rapid stream, ^m ^^^H^^k^l. 6 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow where we may see the straw and bubble ridingquietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in theirmimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of thepassing current. Though many years haveelapsed since I trod the drowsy shades ofSleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I shouldnot still find the same trees and the same fam-ilies vegetating in its sheltered bosom. In this by-place of nature there abode, in aremote period of American history, that is tosay, some thirty years since, a worthy wightof the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned,or, as he expressed it, tarried, in SleepyHollow, for the purpose of instructing thechildren of the vicinity. He was a native ofConnecticut, a State which supplies the Unionwith pioneers for the mind as weU as for theforest, and sends forth yearly its legions offrontier woodsmen and cotmtry school-mas-ters. The cognomen of Crane was not inap-plicable to his person. He was tall, but e
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