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Show MET HEADLESS HORSEMAN Ghot Goes Forth Nightly In Sleepy Hollow In Search of Head Lost in Battle. The graveyard of the old Dutch cr:ircb, Tarrytown, N. Y., Is de-scrlbe-1 by Washington Irving ut the beginning of the "Legend of Sleepy Hol.-Cw." "On the Tuppan Zee there lies a small market town or rural port known by the name of Tarrytown. Not far from this village there Is a little valley which Is one of the quietest spots in the world. A small brook glides through it, with Just murmurs enough to lull one to repose." The enchanted region of Sleepy Hollow Is haunted by the apparition appari-tion of a figure on horseback, who in a mythical battle had lost his head. "Certain of the more authentic historians," continues the author, "allege that the body of the trooper troop-er having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle In nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes some-times passes along the Hollow is owing to his being in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak." Just below the bridge flows the brook, and near the church bridge Ichabod Crane had his terrifying encounter with the headless horseman. horse-man. Detroit News. |