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When
school
hours
were
over
,
he
was
even
the
companion
and
playmate
of
the
larger
boys
;
and
on
holiday
afternoons
would
convoy
some
of
the
smaller
ones
home
,
who
happened
to
have
pretty
sisters
,
or
good
housewives
for
mothers
,
noted
for
the
comforts
of
the
cupboard
.
Indeed
,
it
behooved
him
to
keep
on
good
terms
with
his
pupils
.
The
revenue
arising
from
his
school
was
small
,
and
would
have
been
scarcely
sufficient
to
furnish
him
with
daily
bread
,
for
he
was
a
huge
feeder
,
and
,
though
lank
,
had
the
dilating
powers
of
an
anaconda
;
but
to
help
out
his
maintenance
,
he
was
,
according
to
country
custom
in
those
parts
,
boarded
and
lodged
at
the
houses
of
the
farmers
whose
children
he
instructed
.
With
these
he
lived
successively
a
week
at
a
time
,
thus
going
the
rounds
of
the
neighborhood
,
with
all
his
worldly
effects
tied
up
in
a
cotton
handkerchief
.
That
all
this
might
not
be
too
onerous
on
the
purses
of
his
rustic
patrons
,
who
are
apt
to
consider
the
costs
of
schooling
a
grievous
burden
,
and
schoolmasters
as
mere
drones
,
he
had
various
ways
of
rendering
himself
both
useful
and
agreeable
.
He
assisted
the
farmers
occasionally
in
the
lighter
labors
of
their
farms
,
helped
to
make
hay
,
mended
the
fences
,
took
the
horses
to
water
,
drove
the
cows
from
pasture
,
and
cut
wood
for
the
winter
fire
.
He
laid
aside
,
too
,
all
the
dominant
dignity
and
absolute
sway
with
which
he
lorded
it
in
his
little
empire
,
the
school
,
and
became
wonderfully
gentle
and
ingratiating
.
He
found
favor
in
the
eyes
of
the
mothers
by
petting
the
children
,
particularly
the
youngest
;
and
like
the
lion
bold
,
which
whilom
so
magnanimously
the
lamb
did
hold
,
he
would
sit
with
a
child
on
one
knee
,
and
rock
a
cradle
with
his
foot
for
whole
hours
together
.
In
addition
to
his
other
vocations
,
he
was
the
singing
-
master
of
the
neighborhood
,
and
picked
up
many
bright
shillings
by
instructing
the
young
folks
in
psalmody
.
It
was
a
matter
of
no
little
vanity
to
him
on
Sundays
,
to
take
his
station
in
front
of
the
church
gallery
,
with
a
band
of
chosen
singers
;
where
,
in
his
own
mind
,
he
completely
carried
away
the
palm
from
the
parson
.
Certain
it
is
,
his
voice
resounded
far
above
all
the
rest
of
the
congregation
;
and
there
are
peculiar
quavers
still
to
be
heard
in
that
church
,
and
which
may
even
be
heard
half
a
mile
off
,
quite
to
the
opposite
side
of
the
millpond
,
on
a
still
Sunday
morning
,
which
are
said
to
be
legitimately
descended
from
the
nose
of
Ichabod
Crane
.
Thus
,
by
divers
little
makeshifts
,
in
that
ingenious
way
which
is
commonly
denominated
“
by
hook
and
by
crook
,
”
the
worthy
pedagogue
got
on
tolerably
enough
,
and
was
thought
,
by
all
who
understood
nothing
of
the
labor
of
headwork
,
to
have
a
wonderfully
easy
life
of
it
.
The
schoolmaster
is
generally
a
man
of
some
importance
in
the
female
circle
of
a
rural
neighborhood
;
being
considered
a
kind
of
idle
,
gentlemanlike
personage
,
of
vastly
superior
taste
and
accomplishments
to
the
rough
country
swains
,
and
,
indeed
,
inferior
in
learning
only
to
the
parson
.
His
appearance
,
therefore
,
is
apt
to
occasion
some
little
stir
at
the
tea
-
table
of
a
farmhouse
,
and
the
addition
of
a
supernumerary
dish
of
cakes
or
sweetmeats
,
or
,
peradventure
,
the
parade
of
a
silver
teapot
.
Our
man
of
letters
,
therefore
,
was
peculiarly
happy
in
the
smiles
of
all
the
country
damsels
.
How
he
would
figure
among
them
in
the
churchyard
,
between
services
on
Sundays
;
gathering
grapes
for
them
from
the
wild
vines
that
overran
the
surrounding
trees
;
reciting
for
their
amusement
all
the
epitaphs
on
the
tombstones
;
or
sauntering
,
with
a
whole
bevy
of
them
,
along
the
banks
of
the
adjacent
millpond
;
while
the
more
bashful
country
bumpkins
hung
sheepishly
back
,
envying
his
superior
elegance
and
address
.
From
his
half
-
itinerant
life
,
also
,
he
was
a
kind
of
travelling
gazette
,
carrying
the
whole
budget
of
local
gossip
from
house
to
house
,
so
that
his
appearance
was
always
greeted
with
satisfaction
.
He
was
,
moreover
,
esteemed
by
the
women
as
a
man
of
great
erudition
,
for
he
had
read
several
books
quite
through
,
and
was
a
perfect
master
of
Cotton
Mather
’
s
“
History
of
New
England
Witchcraft
,
”
in
which
,
by
the
way
,
he
most
firmly
and
potently
believed
.
He
was
,
in
fact
,
an
odd
mixture
of
small
shrewdness
and
simple
credulity
.
His
appetite
for
the
marvellous
,
and
his
powers
of
digesting
it
,
were
equally
extraordinary
;
and
both
had
been
increased
by
his
residence
in
this
spell
-
bound
region
.
No
tale
was
too
gross
or
monstrous
for
his
capacious
swallow
.
It
was
often
his
delight
,
after
his
school
was
dismissed
in
the
afternoon
,
to
stretch
himself
on
the
rich
bed
of
clover
bordering
the
little
brook
that
whimpered
by
his
schoolhouse
,
and
there
con
over
old
Mather
’
s
direful
tales
,
until
the
gathering
dusk
of
evening
made
the
printed
page
a
mere
mist
before
his
eyes
.
Then
,
as
he
wended
his
way
by
swamp
and
stream
and
awful
woodland
,
to
the
farmhouse
where
he
happened
to
be
quartered
,
every
sound
of
nature
,
at
that
witching
hour
,
fluttered
his
excited
imagination
,
—
the
moan
of
the
whip
-
poor
-
will
from
the
hillside
,
the
boding
cry
of
the
tree
toad
,
that
harbinger
of
storm
,
the
dreary
hooting
of
the
screech
owl
,
or
the
sudden
rustling
in
the
thicket
of
birds
frightened
from
their
roost
.
The
fireflies
,
too
,
which
sparkled
most
vividly
in
the
darkest
places
,
now
and
then
startled
him
,
as
one
of
uncommon
brightness
would
stream
across
his
path
;
and
if
,
by
chance
,
a
huge
blockhead
of
a
beetle
came
winging
his
blundering
flight
against
him
,
the
poor
varlet
was
ready
to
give
up
the
ghost
,
with
the
idea
that
he
was
struck
with
a
witch
’
s
token
.
His
only
resource
on
such
occasions
,
either
to
drown
thought
or
drive
away
evil
spirits
,
was
to
sing
psalm
tunes
and
the
good
people
of
Sleepy
Hollow
,
as
they
sat
by
their
doors
of
an
evening
,
were
often
filled
with
awe
at
hearing
his
nasal
melody
,
“
in
linked
sweetness
long
drawn
out
,
”
floating
from
the
distant
hill
,
or
along
the
dusky
road
.
Another
of
his
sources
of
fearful
pleasure
was
to
pass
long
winter
evenings
with
the
old
Dutch
wives
,
as
they
sat
spinning
by
the
fire
,
with
a
row
of
apples
roasting
and
spluttering
along
the
hearth
,
and
listen
to
their
marvellous
tales
of
ghosts
and
goblins
,
and
haunted
fields
,
and
haunted
brooks
,
and
haunted
bridges
,
and
haunted
houses
,
and
particularly
of
the
headless
horseman
,
or
Galloping
Hessian
of
the
Hollow
,
as
they
sometimes
called
him
.
