of a c no great distance. Indeed, certain of t autic orians of ts, ing ting facts concerning tre, allege t trooper,  rides forto ttle in nig of  times passes along t blast, is oo ed and in a o get back to the churchyard before daybreak.

    Suc of tition, ory in t region of sre is kno all try ?resides by the headless horseman of Sleepy hollow.

    It is remarkable t ty I ioned is not con?ned to tive inants of t is unconsciously imbibed by every one wime.

    ered t sleepy region, ttle time to inco groive--to dream dreams and see apparitions.

    I mention t  is in suctle retired Dutc State of Ne population, manners, and customs remain ?xed, orrent of migration and improvement, less country, stle nooks of still er ly at ancurbed by t. trod t I question ill ?nd trees and tating in its sered bosom.

    In ture te period of American ory--t is to say, some ty years since--a  of t, quot;tarried,quot; in Sleepy ructing ty. ive of Connecticut, a State s legions of frontier ry scers. t inapplicable to all, but exceedingly lank,  dangled a mile out of  t mig loosely oget at top,  it looked like a o tell tering about  aken h or some scarecrow eloped from a corn?eld.

    ructed of logs, tly glazed and partly patc  ingeniously secured at vacant ed in takes set against tters, so t, t get in  ease,  in getting out---an idea most probably borroect, Yost Van en, from tery of an eel-pot. tood in a rat pleasant situation, just at t of a  one end of it. From  be errupted noativ