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At
times
too
can
a
glimpse
be
obtained
of
the
face
.
Its
features
are
well
formed
,
but
wearing
a
sad
expression
;
the
lips
of
livid
colour
,
slightly
parted
,
showing
a
double
row
of
white
teeth
,
set
in
a
grim
ghastly
smile
.
Though
there
is
no
perceptible
change
in
the
personnel
of
the
Headless
Horseman
there
is
something
new
to
be
noted
.
Hitherto
he
has
been
seen
going
alone
.
Now
he
is
in
company
.
It
can
not
be
called
agreeable
;
--
consisting
as
it
does
of
wolves
--
half
a
score
of
them
squatting
closely
upon
the
plain
,
and
at
intervals
loping
around
him
By
the
horse
they
are
certainly
not
liked
;
as
is
proved
by
the
snorting
and
stamping
of
his
hoof
,
when
one
of
them
ventures
upon
a
too
close
proximity
to
his
heels
.
The
rider
seems
more
indifferent
to
a
score
of
birds
--
large
dark
birds
--
that
swoop
in
shadowy
circles
around
his
shoulders
.
Even
when
one
bolder
than
the
rest
has
the
audacity
to
alight
upon
him
,
he
has
made
no
attempt
to
disturb
it
,
raising
neither
hand
nor
arm
to
drive
it
away
!
Three
times
one
of
the
birds
has
alighted
thus
--
first
upon
the
right
shoulder
,
then
upon
the
left
,
and
then
midway
between
--
upon
the
spot
where
the
head
should
be
!
The
bird
does
not
stay
upon
its
singular
perch
,
or
only
for
an
instant
.
If
the
rider
does
not
feel
the
indignity
the
steed
does
;
and
resists
it
by
rearing
upward
,
with
a
fierce
neighing
,
that
frights
the
vultures
off
--
to
return
again
only
after
a
short
interval
of
shyness
.
His
steed
thus
browsing
,
now
in
quiet
,
now
disturbed
by
the
too
near
approach
of
the
wolves
--
anon
by
the
bold
behaviour
of
the
birds
--
goes
the
Headless
Horseman
,
step
by
step
,
and
with
long
pauses
of
pasturing
,
around
the
prairie
island
.
The
singular
spectacle
described
--
extraordinary
it
might
be
termed
--
was
too
grave
to
appear
grotesque
.
There
was
some
thing
about
it
that
savoured
of
the
outre-monde
.
Human
eyes
could
not
have
beholden
it
,
without
the
shivering
of
a
human
frame
,
and
the
chilling
of
human
blood
.
Was
it
seen
by
human
eyes
in
this
fresh
phase
--
with
the
wolves
below
,
and
the
vultures
above
?
