Questions of the Day # 44: Name the story On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, & muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless!--but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle! As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, & as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, & Indian corn, & the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, & his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, & the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, & shingle palaces in the wilderness. Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, & presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery, with pots & kettles dangling beneath; & he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where! The mysterious event caused much speculation @ the Church on the following Sunday. Knots of gazers & gossips were collected in the church yard, @ the bridge, & @ the spot where the hat & pumpkin had been found. The stories of Brouwer, of Bones, & a whole budget of others, were called to mind; & when they had diligently considered them all, & compared them with the symptoms of the present case, they shook their heads, & came to the conclusion that Ichabod had been carried off by the galloping Hessian. As he was a bachelor, & in nobody’s debt, nobody troubled his head any more about him, the school was removed to a different quarter of the hollow, & another pedagogue reigned in his stead.
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