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Washington Irving (17831859).  Rip Van Winkle & The fabrication of Sleepy Hollow.| The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction.  1917.|   | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow|   |         | sky AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER| |   | | A pleasing land of delaying headroom it was,| |   Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;| | And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,| |   For incessantly flushing round a summer sky.| | CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.| |    1|   IN the bosom of unmatched of those spacious coves which indent the eastern prop of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail, and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, on that post lies a small market-town or rural port, which by near is called Greensburgh, entirely which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. This name was given, we are told, in determine days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to mill around about the village tavern on market days. Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, just merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic. non removed from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a small-minded valley, or rather lap of land, among high hills, which is one and save(a) of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides with it, with just babble enough to lull one to love-in-idleness; and the occasional blab of a quail, or tapping of a woodpecker, is just about the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.|    2|   I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one face of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all temper is inquisitively quiet, and was star! tled by the roar of my own gun, as it bust the Sabbath stillness around, and...If you want to get a ample essay, club it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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