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14 pective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door: which, as it was an established piece of etiquette, done in perfect simplicity and honesty of heart, occasioned no scandal at that time, nor should it at the present—if our great grandfathers approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants to say a word against it.

In this by place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. He wa a native of Connecticut: a state which suplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legons of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of ofof [sic] Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall but