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He
was
a
kind
and
thankful
creature
,
whose
heart
dilated
in
proportion
as
his
skin
was
filled
with
good
cheer
,
and
whose
spirits
rose
with
eating
,
as
some
men
’
s
do
with
drink
.
He
could
not
help
,
too
,
rolling
his
large
eyes
round
him
as
he
ate
,
and
chuckling
with
the
possibility
that
he
might
one
day
be
lord
of
all
this
scene
of
almost
unimaginable
luxury
and
splendor
.
Then
,
he
thought
,
how
soon
he
’
d
turn
his
back
upon
the
old
schoolhouse
;
snap
his
fingers
in
the
face
of
Hans
Van
Ripper
,
and
every
other
niggardly
patron
,
and
kick
any
itinerant
pedagogue
out
of
doors
that
should
dare
to
call
him
comrade
!
Old
Baltus
Van
Tassel
moved
about
among
his
guests
with
a
face
dilated
with
content
and
good
humor
,
round
and
jolly
as
the
harvest
moon
.
His
hospitable
attentions
were
brief
,
but
expressive
,
being
confined
to
a
shake
of
the
hand
,
a
slap
on
the
shoulder
,
a
loud
laugh
,
and
a
pressing
invitation
to
“
fall
to
,
and
help
themselves
.
”
And
now
the
sound
of
the
music
from
the
common
room
,
or
hall
,
summoned
to
the
dance
.
The
musician
was
an
old
gray
-
headed
negro
,
who
had
been
the
itinerant
orchestra
of
the
neighborhood
for
more
than
half
a
century
.
His
instrument
was
as
old
and
battered
as
himself
.
The
greater
part
of
the
time
he
scraped
on
two
or
three
strings
,
accompanying
every
movement
of
the
bow
with
a
motion
of
the
head
;
bowing
almost
to
the
ground
,
and
stamping
with
his
foot
whenever
a
fresh
couple
were
to
start
.
Ichabod
prided
himself
upon
his
dancing
as
much
as
upon
his
vocal
powers
.
Not
a
limb
,
not
a
fibre
about
him
was
idle
;
and
to
have
seen
his
loosely
hung
frame
in
full
motion
,
and
clattering
about
the
room
,
you
would
have
thought
St
.
Vitus
himself
,
that
blessed
patron
of
the
dance
,
was
figuring
before
you
in
person
.
He
was
the
admiration
of
all
the
negroes
;
who
,
having
gathered
,
of
all
ages
and
sizes
,
from
the
farm
and
the
neighborhood
,
stood
forming
a
pyramid
of
shining
black
faces
at
every
door
and
window
,
gazing
with
delight
at
the
scene
,
rolling
their
white
eyeballs
,
and
showing
grinning
rows
of
ivory
from
ear
to
ear
.
How
could
the
flogger
of
urchins
be
otherwise
than
animated
and
joyous
?
The
lady
of
his
heart
was
his
partner
in
the
dance
,
and
smiling
graciously
in
reply
to
all
his
amorous
oglings
;
while
Brom
Bones
,
sorely
smitten
with
love
and
jealousy
,
sat
brooding
by
himself
in
one
corner
.
When
the
dance
was
at
an
end
,
Ichabod
was
attracted
to
a
knot
of
the
sager
folks
,
who
,
with
Old
Van
Tassel
,
sat
smoking
at
one
end
of
the
piazza
,
gossiping
over
former
times
,
and
drawing
out
long
stories
about
the
war
.
This
neighborhood
,
at
the
time
of
which
I
am
speaking
,
was
one
of
those
highly
favored
places
which
abound
with
chronicle
and
great
men
.
The
British
and
American
line
had
run
near
it
during
the
war
;
it
had
,
therefore
,
been
the
scene
of
marauding
and
infested
with
refugees
,
cowboys
,
and
all
kinds
of
border
chivalry
.
Just
sufficient
time
had
elapsed
to
enable
each
storyteller
to
dress
up
his
tale
with
a
little
becoming
fiction
,
and
,
in
the
indistinctness
of
his
recollection
,
to
make
himself
the
hero
of
every
exploit
.
There
was
the
story
of
Doffue
Martling
,
a
large
blue
-
bearded
Dutchman
,
who
had
nearly
taken
a
British
frigate
with
an
old
iron
nine
-
pounder
from
a
mud
breastwork
,
only
that
his
gun
burst
at
the
sixth
discharge
.
And
there
was
an
old
gentleman
who
shall
be
nameless
,
being
too
rich
a
mynheer
to
be
lightly
mentioned
,
who
,
in
the
battle
of
White
Plains
,
being
an
excellent
master
of
defence
,
parried
a
musket
-
ball
with
a
small
sword
,
insomuch
that
he
absolutely
felt
it
whiz
round
the
blade
,
and
glance
off
at
the
hilt
;
in
proof
of
which
he
was
ready
at
any
time
to
show
the
sword
,
with
the
hilt
a
little
bent
.
There
were
several
more
that
had
been
equally
great
in
the
field
,
not
one
of
whom
but
was
persuaded
that
he
had
a
considerable
hand
in
bringing
the
war
to
a
happy
termination
.
