Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-23

purpose in the olden time in order to view
with mortal eyes the famous localities de-
scribed in the veritable Legend Of Sleepy
Hollow" and, if the fates were propitious, to
| catch glimpse of the doughty chronicler him
self Of tine marvels therein portrayed.
After once more refreshing our memories by
reading the weird tale with due dellberation
the expectant party of sight-seers hired a
clumsy antiouated rockaway of unwieldy d.
mansions, drawn by clumsier and more anti
quated steeds of more unwieldy dimensions
than even the conveyance. and rolled heavily
along the dusty road toward the celebrated
scene of the story. Following one of the high
terraced streets of the original town, and
passing the fine monument erected to the cap
tors of Maj. Andre, upon the identical spot
where he was summarily arrested pleasant
drive of a mile or so brought us to the little
0ld-fashioned Dutch church of Sleepy Hollow,
with its quaint architecture and ancient
moss-grown burying ground. where now
quietly reposes the revered dust of the
once genial Godfrey Crayon. A few furlongs
beyond this hallowed spot was the little wooden
bridge over which madly galloped Brom Bones
in pursuit of the wretched schoolmaster, the
sorry victim of practical joke, and whence
the headless horseman hurled his terrible
pumpkin at the hapless pedagogue. Here
awakened fancy took wing for the first time in
our meanderings, and distinctly cOnjured up
the ludicrous tableau of the piratical-looking,
buccaneeringly disposed Brom Bones and the
trembling Ichabod Crane together upon the
rather shaky bridge of plank during that awful
hien' VI supern"'"r"i norfors'
THE OLD MILL
Further on, in modest little dell of a genuine
English sort, hiding. as it were, away from the
rude stare of the prying visitor, stood the old
mill, its wheel still turned by the waters of the
willOw-bordered lake Just large enough to sail
single hat-bottomed boat. Doubtless the
lovely Katrina Van Iassel sauntered many
time in girlhood by the brink Of this tiny mill
pond, plucklng the ice creamy and blanc
mango looking water lilies and fishing for
sinners and sickle backs with a crooked pin,
precisely as dld the shoe!ess, hatless sun
Drowned urchlns OF both sexes to whom we
tossed bright coppers as we passed Here we
turned short about, and, on the way back over
our route. our hitherto embarrassingly silent
and painfully lugubrious jehu. trifie
ciumsler, more anuquated ana more unwieldy
Tho, 49, ,,nssihIa no;ntaS "nt o the i,ft
of the broad highway a low-roofed. yellow
painted building of two stories, quite fallen
INTO decay, which ne assured US, IN
t,cai ori,ai ar,d undnrhtnd was ne 81 tho
Van TassoIs vharo thot Srmntrons 5000 ~
vino ard wassaii Nd revsIry occnrrod ~ ,rb;ch
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mon moor Crane n rid himself Of a rival al and
the fair INIT tickle K.trina 81 the amorons
swa;,,s ali awkward and ahsurd addressed
The 1egend from this f,mil,ar standno,nt he.
came a firm. fixed fact, neither questioned nor
questionable and rather more real actnaI
material and likely to our highly mes.
merized minds than the immediate occur
rnnces then trapsnIring before orr verv eyes'
We had seen sleepy follow. the bridge still
haunted with memories the Van TasseI manor
house itself and wbv, therefore. should we
the recorded narra,iye We didn't-we scorned
to do II. and nothing now remnired in order
IN comn,eteIv verify tho whole bus;noas RON
BONES Grand. bridge, beadless trnnk and ali
but to behold at home. in his own bouse at
bia own dcsk in his COW easv chair and com.
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author whose realm we we're 50 ru !. IN
vading, wouia nave rather seen ~ thefe, III
emblem OF iaaiuen purify anu innocence 'hah
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hned both SIDES OF the approach OF the oft-de-
scrlbed home of venerable genius, just peepng
an antique gable at us through the dense
boughs. Yes, there was Sunnyside cozy, quaint,
ntrlc s. nd tbar