The Legend of Sleepy Hollow-Post #4

Are you still loving it?  I know!  It only gets better, doesn't it?  I mean don't you just love phrases like, "rough country swains" and "a supernumerary dish of cakes"?  How about "…the rich bed of clover boarding the little brook that whimpered by his schoolhouse"?  LOVE it!  AND this is where I think Disney did a pretty good job animating their version…"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 darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of the uncommon huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost…"

ANYWAY…now that we know Ichabod's character and habits…intimately know them…we meet the fair Katrina!  Do you LOVE the description of her, or what?  "She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches…"  I LOVE that!  The little alliteration in the middle there (plump as a partridge) and the comparison to a peach…delicious!  Wonderful!  So visual!

Now…wait until you get to the descriptions of the food!  You'll be salivating!  Seriously!