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Sleepy hollow 6
1.
2. There is a little hollow or valley called sleepy hollow
because everyone who lives there always feels sleepy.
This people believed in god and ghosts and
spirits, Perhaps this spirits made this place strange and
mysterious .
The most famous story about the ghost was a man on a
horse. He was always seen late at night an he had no
head so the people called him the headless horseman.
This is a ghost of the soldier who was killed in a terrible
battle in this area. The soldier’s head was off by a
cannonball . It was buried in he graveyard next to the
church every night the horseman rode to the battlefield
to look for his head, but he never found it, and he always
had to return before down
3. There was only one teacher in Sleepy Hollow he was
called Ichabod Crane. He was not handsome at all.
When he walked he looked very strange. When
lessons had finished for the day, Ichabod often went
home with one of the children. He liked young, pretty
ladies and he liked food too. He loved food but he
loved singing too so he was in a group of people to
sing psalms. All the people of sleepy hollow respected
Ichabod because he could read and write. He loved
ghost stories but when he walked back in the dark he
saw ghost and spirits all around him. Ichabod´s
favorites ghost stories were about the headless
horseman but he was frightened.
4. One day a new pupil joined Ichabod´s group of
psalms singers. Her name was Katrina Van Tassel
and she was the daughter of Baltus Van
Tassel, an old farmer. She was eighteen years old
and she was very beautiful, all the young man
admired Katrina. She was Baltus Van Tassel`s only
child so when her parents died Katrina was going
to inherit the farm. Ichabod was in love with
her, and he forgot about all other women.
Ichabod visited the farm he started dreaming
about his future life. He said that if he married her
, he would have an easy life.
5. Brom Bones was a young man who
was in love with Katrina like
Ichabod.
Katrina’s father invited Ichabod to
a party in his house, but he invited
Brom bones too.
Brom Bones was jealous of
Ichabod; so he started to play
tricks on him, so Ichabod was
scared because he believed that
these things were done by spirits.
6. Ichabod went to the party with an old black
suit of clothes, and he borrowed a horse from
Hans van Ripper, but he played a trick on
him, and the horse was horrible.
At the party Ichabod danced with Katrina in a
very strange way, Brom Bones didn’t like this.
Then he started to talk about the headless
horseman and everybody was surprised. After
the party Ichabod wanted to spend time with
Katrina, but she didn’t like it, so she made an
excuse to him. Finally she spent time with Brom
Bones and Ichabod was angry.
7. Ichabod rode gunpowder slowly along by
the side of some high hills.
He could hear the sound of a dog barking
on the other side of the river. But the sound
was very far away, like a sound in a dream.
Suddenly, a cloud covered the moon.
Ichabod felt lonely and afraid. In front of
him , a huge tree stood by the side of the
road. This tree was haunted by major
Andre's ghost.
8. Ichabod wanted to ride quickly across the
bridge. His heart was beating faster and
faster. He kicked gunpowder with both his
feet.
Ichabod could see it more clearly. It had the
shape of a large man on a huge black horse.
Gunpowder decided to move. He ran back to
the road. The horse ran towards the bridge.
The strange horseman waited. When
gunpowder and Ichabod had passed him , he
started to move too. He began to follow them.
at a moment, they crossed the bridge
together
9. The next morning, Gunpowder was found quietly eating
grass in the Hans Van Ripper’s farm but Ichabod was not
there. Ichabod’s pupils missed Ichabod because he didnt
come at the schoolhouse. By the afternoon Hans Van
Ripper began to worry about Ichabod, he went to find
him. The men looked for Ichabod for a long time but he
couldnt find him. They found some marks in the
road, marks by two horses. The marks continued across
the bridge and disappeared in the grass. They saw the
shcoolmaster’s hat and a big round yellow fruit and it was
the man’s head. It was broken. They couldnt find anything
more. Hans van Ripper searched through Ichabod things
and he found some poems about Katrina which Ichabod
had written. None of these poems was finished.
10. Everybody in sleepy hollow had heard
the story of Ichabod Crane’s strange
disappearance. People coulnt stop
talking about it. «Perhaps Ichabod met
the headlesss horseman and he was
captured and carried away .
Many years later a farmer from sleepy
hollow went to New york and said he
saw ichabod. He was a famous lowyer.
Sometimes brom Bones laughed louder
when he was asked about Ichabod and
the headless horseman.
